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PCPD News
私隱專員公署通訊
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Issue no. 31
To address various privacy issues
associated with the use of big data, the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for
Personal Data, Hong Kong (“PCPD”)
organised the “International Conference
on Big Data from a Privacy Perspective”
on 10 June 2015. The conference
attracted 250 local and overseas data
privacy officers, ICT professionals, legal
experts and business leaders.
At h i s we l come add r e s s t o a f u l l
house,
Mr Allan Chiang, the Privacy
Commissioner for Personal Data
, first
set the scene by warning that if big
data is not managed well, the outcome
could be “dictatorship of data”, where
individuals lose power over a great deal
of their lives when there is a massive
amount of information about them that
they do not have control over.
He also sounded a note of caution
– that big data may have profound
privacy ramifications. “Big data is
more concerned with correlations in
discovering patterns and identifying
t r ends t han i n e s t ab l i sh i ng exac t
causalities. It can therefore wrongfully
label individuals, stigmatise protected
classes, and perpetuate prejudice and
discrimination in society.”
The officiating guest of the Conference,
the Honourable Nicholas W. Yang,
Advisor to the Chief Executive on
Innovation and Technology and Non-
official Member of the Executive
Co u n c i l o f t h e Ho n g Ko n g SAR
Government
, said the city is now
facing a grand challenge in balancing
the innovation created by information
sharing and the personal privacy data
included in the information. “Hong
Kong citizens are very technology
s a v v y. Th e i n c r e d i b l y p o p u l a r
smartphones and ubiquitous Internet
connectivity have created important
privacy concerns, from both a normal
perspective and a criminal standpoint.”
Mr Yang continued, “Do we depend on
個人資料私隱專員蔣任宏在論壇上發言。
Mr Allan Chiang, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, joined the panel
discussion.
行政長官創新及科技顧問楊偉雄蒞臨主禮。
The Honourable Nicholas W. Yang, Advisor to the Chief Executive
on Innovation and Technology, officiated at the opening of the
conference.
our laws to keep up with the growing
challenges to protect our privacy? Or
do we depend on ourselves to develop
a culture of mutual respect and trust,
a code of conduct and self-discipline?
Or do we need all of this? I am sure
all of us here treasure personal liberty.
Likewise, in the Internet world, where
almost everything is shared, we should
and must respect personal privacy.”