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The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a lobby group that numbers Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo
! and SAP among its members, has written to Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) and outlined objections to the Special Administrative Region’s proposed anti-doxxing laws.
Hong Kong’s government announced amendments to its Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (PDPO) in May 2021 after doxxing the unauthorised release of personal information became widely used during pro-democracy protests. Some used the tactic to name police and court staff who curtailed protests or ran cases, while others used doxxing to identify journalists, protestors or activists.
Proposed new amendments, detailed in a new paper [PDF], aim to make the practice explicitly illegal with changes to the Territory s Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (PDPO).
The amendments also seek to give Hong Kong s authorities the power to enforce content takedowns, which is needed because only two thirds of requests to platforms to remove doxxed content were successful.
Out of the total cases, 1460 were referred on to the police for violating section 64 of the PDPO, which the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Block detailed as:
Under section 64(2) of the PDPO, a person will commit an offence if he discloses, irrespective of his intent, any personal data of a data subject obtained from a data user without the data user’s consent and the disclosure causes psychological harm to the data subject.
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Boon to money-launderers or privacy issue?
Apr 9
By: Tim Hamlett
It would be nice to think the Hong Kong government had stumbled into its recently-announced decision to protect the identities of businesspeople in the Companies Registry out of a well-intentioned effort to protect them from doxing, the practice of exposing identities without permission.
But there is an old saying in military circles: if something bad happens once it is a misfortune; twice is a coincidence; three times is enemy action. The attempt to curb access to the Companies Registry comes soon after the prosecution of an investigative journalist for using information about vehicle registration supplied to the public by the Transport Department to identify the masked perpetrators of attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators in 2019. That was followed by the news that court sheets are to be purged of the identifying details of defendants and other participants, including the prosecutor. This will be
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