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Date: 5 November 2024
Reaching Out to the Community – Privacy Commissioner Interviewed by the Media to Explain the PCPD’s Work
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, was interviewed by RTHK Radio 1’s “Accountability” on 2 November to explain the work of her Office (PCPD) .
The Privacy Commissioner pointed out that as the training of artificial intelligence systems requires a large amount of data, which may be scrapped from online platforms, the PCPD, together with 15 privacy or data protection authorities worldwide, recently issued a global joint statement on data scraping to social media platforms and provided guidance to them on how to better protect users’ personal data. She also mentioned that social media platforms should allow users to choose whether they consent to the purpose(s) of use of their personal data.
The Privacy Commissioner also said that since the implementation of the Personal Data (Privacy) Amendment Ordinance 2021 in October 2021, the PCPD had handled over 3,200 doxxing cases and issued over 2,000 cessation notices to 47 online platforms, with a compliance rate of over 96%. The PCPD also instigated criminal investigations in 363 cases and arrested 62 persons during the period. This showed that the PCPD’s work on combatting doxxing acts had been very effective.
The Privacy Commissioner pointed out that as the training of artificial intelligence systems requires a large amount of data, which may be scrapped from online platforms, the PCPD, together with 15 privacy or data protection authorities worldwide, recently issued a global joint statement on data scraping to social media platforms and provided guidance to them on how to better protect users’ personal data. She also mentioned that social media platforms should allow users to choose whether they consent to the purpose(s) of use of their personal data.
The Privacy Commissioner also said that since the implementation of the Personal Data (Privacy) Amendment Ordinance 2021 in October 2021, the PCPD had handled over 3,200 doxxing cases and issued over 2,000 cessation notices to 47 online platforms, with a compliance rate of over 96%. The PCPD also instigated criminal investigations in 363 cases and arrested 62 persons during the period. This showed that the PCPD’s work on combatting doxxing acts had been very effective.
The Privacy Commissioner, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling (middle), was interviewed by RTHK Radio 1’s “Accountability”.