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PCPD News
私隱專員公署通訊
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Issue no. 30
demonstrates the company's ignorance
of the law, and disrespect for privacy
and data protection. Employers should
therefore refrain from placing Blind
Ads seeking job applicants' personal
data. Where there is a genuine need
for employers to conceal their identity
when advertising for job vacancies,
they may resort to Blind Ads but should
use them to solicit job applicant
enquiries rather than personal data.
The Commissioner pointed out that
the recruitment media were in the
best position to act as a gatekeeper.
He therefore urged them to consider
stepping up their efforts to identify
advertisers, screen advertisements they
received to identify Blind Ads which
solicited job applicants' personal
data, return non-compliant ads to
the advertiser for rectification, and
consider refusing Blind Ads soliciting
job applicants' personal data.
I n r e s pon s e ,
JobMa r ke t , Rec r u i t ,
JiuJik, Classified Post, JobsDB
and
Career Times
pledged to fight Blind
Ads, heeding the Commissioner's
advice to act as gatekeepers to prevent
the unfair collection of personal data
through Blind Ads. Jobfinder is the
only recruitment media which has not
responded to the Commissioner’s appeal.
Investigation Report:
www.pcpd.org.hk/english/enforcement/commissioners_
findings/investigation_reports/files/
R14_6242_e.pdf
1.
匿名廣告泛指機構沒有披露其身份而刊登的招聘廣告
“
Blind Ads
”
refer to job advertisements organisations place without disclosing their identities.
補習導師及外傭中介網站過度收集及披露個人資料
Excessive Online Collection and Disclosure of Personal Data by Recruitment
Agencies for Private Tutors and Foreign Domestic Helpers
公署於
2014
年
11
月
20
日公佈兩份調
查報告,其中一份指六個補習中介網站
在導師登記過程中收集其身份證號碼及
聯絡人資料屬超乎適度,因而違反了條
例保障資料第
1(1)
原則的規定,影響
五十二萬名人士;另一份調查報告披
露香港十家主要的外籍家庭傭工(「外
傭」)中介公司,把外傭申請人的某些
個人資料、其家屬及其前僱主(包括香
港僱主)的個人資料上載網站任人查
閱,違反了保障資料第
3
原則的規定。
補習中介網站
是次調查涉及分別由五間公司經營的六
個網站。求職導師在登記時需要提供其
身份證號碼及其聯絡人的姓名、電話號
碼及與求職導師的關係,公署認為該些
網站收集了超乎適度的個人資料。
該些網站解釋有需要收集身份證號碼以
核實求職者的身份,避免出現「冒認」
的情況,以防止發生影響網站及/或學
生和家長的不正當或欺詐行為。事實
上,該些網站並不是受《僱傭條例》監
管的職業介紹所,沒有法律責任收集求
職者的身份證號碼。它們的商業模式是
低成本運作,所以並不可能面見每一位
求職者以查實身份。在網上收集求職者
的身份證號碼來辨識身份,可以說是毫
無作用。
至於收集求職者的聯絡人姓名與電話號
碼,該些補習中介網站解釋以便發生事
故時可作緊急聯絡用途。這做法看來無
可厚非,但該些網站應讓個別導師按其
所需,自行決定是否提供聯絡人資料,
而毋須在導師登記過程中強制收集。
外籍家庭傭工中介公司
另一調查報告涉及香港十間主要的持牌
外傭中介公司,主要業務是為準僱主介
紹有意來港工作的外傭。本案發現最大
Career Times
向匿名廣告說「不」。
Career Times says "No" to Blind Ads.
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