Telling a Good Hong Kong Story – PCPD Representatives Attend the 46th Global Privacy Assembly 2024
Date: 4 November 2024
Telling a Good Hong Kong Story – PCPD
Representatives Attend the 46th Global Privacy Assembly 2024
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy
Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, and representatives of the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) attended
the 46th Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) from 28 October to 1 November
2024. The hybrid conference, which was held in Jersey, featured
discussions of privacy issues relating to artificial intelligence
(AI), cybersecurity, children education, cross-border data transfers,
regulatory cooperation and more.
In the Open Session, the
Assistant Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Corporate
Communications and Compliance), Ms Joyce LAI (Assistant Privacy
Commissioner), spoke at a panel titled “Education from the ground up:
The societal impact of privacy education”. She discussed the proactive
approach taken by the PCPD in advancing privacy education for children
in Hong Kong through an array of initiatives such as publications,
seminars and competitions.
At a side event, the Assistant
Privacy Commissioner joined the representatives from the privacy or
data protection authorities of Australia, Canada, Guernsey, Norway and
the UK in a panel discussion on the “Concluding joint statement on
data scraping and the protection of privacy”
, which was co-
signed by the authorities from 16 jurisdictions (including the PCPD)
and published earlier.
It was also announced in the Closed
Session that the PCPD has become a co-chair of the GPA’s Ethics and
Data Protection in AI Working Group since October 2024.
The
GPA is the leading international forum for over 130 privacy or data
protection authorities from around the globe to discuss and exchange
views on privacy issues and the related international developments.
The Assistant Privacy Commissioner, Ms Joyce LAI (first left),
spoke at a panel discussion of the Global Privacy Assembly 2024.