Reaching Out to the Community – Privacy Commissioner Interviewed by the Media to Explain the PCPD’s Work
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, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling (middle), was interviewed by RTHK
Radio 1’s “Accountability”.