The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, published an article entitled “Hong Kong: Standard Contract for the Cross-boundary Flow of Personal Information within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” at OneTrust Data Guidance.
The Standard Contract for Cross-boundary Flow of Personal Information Within the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (Mainland, Hong Kong) (“the GBA SC”) was jointly formulated and published by the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”), the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“ITIB”) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (“PCPD”) on 13 December 2023. In the article, the Privacy Commissioner introduced the scope of the GBA SC and the key obligations and responsibilities to which personal information processors and recipients should pay attention.
The Privacy Commissioner encourages enterprises to adopt the GBA SC to carry out cross-boundary transfers of personal information in the Greater Bay Area, and highlighted that the GBA SC, as a facilitation measure to promote cross-boundary flows of personal information (i.e., personal data) in the Greater Bay Area, represented a breakthrough under the “One Country, Two Systems” system to foster the development and success of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.
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