Reaching Out to the Community – Privacy Commissioner Interviewed by the Media to Explain the Global Joint Statement Issued to Social Media Platforms on Data Scraping
Date: 4 November 2024
Reaching Out to the Community –
Privacy Commissioner Interviewed by the Media to Explain the Global
Joint Statement Issued to Social Media Platforms on Data Scraping
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy
Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, was interviewed by RTHK News’
“Hong Kong Today”, RTHK Radio 1’s “HK2000” and “Open Line Open View”
on 29 and 30 October to explain the global joint statement (Joint
Statement) on data scraping issued by her Office (PCPD) together with
15 privacy or data protection authorities worldwide to social media
platforms.
The Privacy Commissioner pointed out that as
concerns grow among regulators worldwide about mass scraping of
personal data, including scraping data for training artificial
intelligence (AI) systems, on social media platforms, the PCPD,
together with the privacy or data protection authorities of other
jurisdictions, issued the Joint Statement. The Joint Statement
reminded social media platforms that they have a responsibility to
ensure that personal data of users are adequately protected against
unlawful data scraping, and provided further guidance to the industry.
The Privacy Commissioner, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling (left), was
interviewed by RTHK Radio 1’s “HK2000”.
The interview by
RTHK News’ “Hong Kong Today” can be listened here
(Chinese
only). (54:40-59:32)
The interview by RTHK Radio 1’s “Open Line
Open View” can be listened here
(Chinese only).