Legislative Council Meetings
Legislative Council Meetings
Date: 9 April 2025
Reporting to Legislative Council – Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs and Privacy Commissioner Attend Special Meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs (SCMA), Mr Erick TSANG Kwok-wai, GBS, IDSM, JP, attended a special meeting of the Legislative Council (LegCo) Finance Committee on 9 April to elaborate on the estimated expenditure for the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau for 2025-26. The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, also attended the meeting to answer questions raised by LegCo Members on the work of her Office (PCPD).
During the meeting, the Privacy Commissioner pointed out that the PCPD has introduced various “Data Security” tools to support different industries, including: (1) launching a one-stop thematic webpage on “Data Security”, which has been visited by over 45,000 users as of end of March this year; (2) establishing the “Data Security Scanner” for organisations to evaluate the security level of their data security measures, which has over 1,100 users; (3) launching the “Data Security” Package for schools, non-profit-making organisations (NGOs) and small-and medium enterprises (SMEs) to raise their data security awareness, with around 200 schools, NGOs and SMEs joining the package; and (4) publishing various data security guidelines, covering topics such as data security, cloud computing, and data breach handling, and distributing the guidelines to over 500 organisations, chambers of commerce, government departments and public sectors, etc.
Please click here for the opening remarks of the SCMA (Chinese only).
During the meeting, the Privacy Commissioner pointed out that the PCPD has introduced various “Data Security” tools to support different industries, including: (1) launching a one-stop thematic webpage on “Data Security”, which has been visited by over 45,000 users as of end of March this year; (2) establishing the “Data Security Scanner” for organisations to evaluate the security level of their data security measures, which has over 1,100 users; (3) launching the “Data Security” Package for schools, non-profit-making organisations (NGOs) and small-and medium enterprises (SMEs) to raise their data security awareness, with around 200 schools, NGOs and SMEs joining the package; and (4) publishing various data security guidelines, covering topics such as data security, cloud computing, and data breach handling, and distributing the guidelines to over 500 organisations, chambers of commerce, government departments and public sectors, etc.
Please click here for the opening remarks of the SCMA (Chinese only).
The SCMA, Mr Erick TSANG Kwok-wai, GBS, IDSM, JP, attended the Special Meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee.
The Privacy Commissioner, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, attended the Special Meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee.