Legislative Council Meetings

Reporting to Legislative Council – Privacy Commissioner Attended Meeting of Legislative Council Panel on Constitutional Affairs to Brief Members on PCPD’s Work in 2022

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, attended the Legislative Council Panel on Constitutional Affairs on 20 February 2023 to brief Members on the work of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in 2022 and its strategic focus this year.
 
Among others, the Privacy Commissioner reported that from the implementation of the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 (i.e. 8 October 2021) to the end of 2022, the PCPD initiated 114 criminal investigations and made 12 arrests. Five arrestees were charged with the new doxxing offences, with three convictions secured to date and one sentenced to immediate imprisonment of eight months. The PCPD considered that the said sentence has a deterrent effect, highlighting that doxxing is a serious crime and the offender may be subject to immediate custodial sentence.
 
During the same period, the PCPD issued 1,500 cessation notices to 26 online platforms, requesting the removal of over 17,700 doxxing messages. The compliance rate on the removal of doxxing messages was over 90%.
 
Please click here for the Privacy Commissioner’s opening remarks (Chinese only).
Please click here for the paper submitted by the PCPD to the Legislative Council Panel on Constitutional Affairs.
 

The Privacy Commissioner, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, attended the meeting of the Legislative Council Panel on Constitutional Affairs to report on the work of the PCPD in 2022.