Legislative Council Meetings

Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs and Privacy Commissioner Attended Special Meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee

Mr Erick TSANG Kwok-wai, IDSM, JP, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, attended the special meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee to introduce the estimated expenditure for the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau for 2022-23 on 8 April 2022. The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, also attended the meeting to answer questions raised by Legislative Council Members on the work of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD).

In responding to a question raised by a Member on the enforcement work of the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 (Amendment Ordinance), the Privacy Commissioner said that, for the period from the commencement of operation of the Amendment Ordinance in October 2021 to the end of February 2022, the PCPD had carried out criminal investigations into 43 cases related to doxxing offences. The PCPD made the first arrest for a suspected doxxing offence on 13 Decemeber 2021. During the same period, the PCPD issued a total of 466 cessation notices to 12 online platforms, requesting them to remove over 2,400 doxxing messages.

Please click here for the opening remarks of the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs at the special meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee (in Chinese only).

The Privacy Commissioner Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling (right) attended the special meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee to answer questions raised by Legislative Council Members on the work of the PCPD.