{"id":3068,"date":"2019-02-14T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zegal.com\/blog\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T05:41:18","slug":"hong-kong-personal-data-privacy-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zegal.com\/en-au\/blog\/post\/hong-kong-personal-data-privacy-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Infringing On Hong Kong\u2019s PDPO?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance In\u00a0<\/strong>Hong\u00a0Kong<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Personal data or privacy Ordinance is Introduced to protect the privacy rights of a person in relation to personal data (Data Subject). As a business owner you should know about PDPO as like your care about corporate tax in Hog Kong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Have you done any of these lately?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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  1. Sent emails to old clients that your company no longer serves,<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Failed to update your marketing database with opt-out requests,<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Contacted someone in your mailing list who had requested to be removed from \u00a0your mailing list, or<\/li>\n
  4. Sent personal data of clients to your email account.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If so, whatever your intentions, you will have violated the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO). \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Enacted in Hong Kong in 1995, PDPO seeks to protect the privacy of individuals in relation to personal data.<\/span><\/p>\n

    In an article titled <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>Hong Kong Regulators Step up Enforcement on Personal Data Protection<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span>\u201d <\/span><\/i>by the Data Protection Report in May 2016, an insurance agent, marketing agency, as well as portfolio manager were penalised for the improper handling of personal data by the Securities and Futures Commission (\u201cSFC\u201d) under the PDPO. In each case, the plaintiffs were sentenced to a Community Service Order, fine, and SFC disciplinary action respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/span>So, what is\u00a0personal data?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

    Personal data is information that:<\/span><\/p>\n