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Reaching Out to Legal Professionals – Privacy Commissioner Spoke at the 2022 Annual Conference of In-House Lawyers

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, spoke as a panellist at the panel discussion entitled “Balancing Data-driven Marketing and Sales with Data Privacy” held on 6 September 2022 at the “2022 Annual Conference of In-House Lawyers”.

The Privacy Commissioner gave an overview of the direct marketing regime under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and discussed some common direct marketing pitfalls and court cases with practitioners. The Privacy Commissioner emphasised that companies and organisations must comply with their customers’ requests to opt out from direct marketing communications to ensure that they do not fall foul of the privacy law.

The Conference was organised by the In-House Lawyers Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong and the theme of this year was “The Corporate Connector”.

Please click here for the Privacy Commissioner’s presentation deck.
 

The Privacy Commissioner spoke as a panellist at the “2022 Annual Conference of In-House Lawyers”. Other panellists include Mr Aaron BLEASDALE, Managing Associate General Counsel, Head of Data Privacy Legal, Asia Pacific, HSBC (joined vide videoconference); Ms Carmen TANG, Senior Partner, Chak & Associates LLP; and Mr Wilfred NG (as moderator), Senior Legal Counsel, Tencent.