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2019-11-27 18:51
Last updated: 2019-11-27 18:51The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data submitted to the Legislative Council today (27) an overview of relevant figures for this year's work and major tasks. Last year, the Office received 113 data breach notifications, 17,168 enquiries and 1,878 complaints.
According to the Office, complaints related to information technology have increased by 102% compared to last year, and many of them are disclosures or leaks of personal data on the Internet, including Cathay Pacific ’s disclosure of customer personal data.
Cathay Pacific leaked 9.4 million passengers last year. (Photo / Photo by Liang Pengwei)
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data today (27th) presented to the annual report of the Legislative Council 2018-2019; it summarizes the work of the Privacy Commissioner over the past year and provides relevant key figures. Privacy Commissioner Huang Jier said that the Office received 113 reports of data leakage incidents, which is similar to last year and has not soared sharply.
The theme of this year's annual report is "Practical Data Governance". The Office has 17,168 enquiries and 1,878 complaints during the year. In 2017 and 2018, 15,737 enquiries and 1,619 complaints were received.
Among them, IT-related complaints increased significantly, with a total of 504 cases, an increase of 102% compared with 2017 to 2018, and many of them related to the disclosure or leakage of personal data on the Internet. Of the 504 cases, 143 were related to Cathay Pacific ’s breach of customer personal data.
2,554 of the complaints violated the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
As for the 1,878 complaints, of the 1,878 complaints received, 2,554 violated the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance; more than 70% or 1,348 were related to banks and finance companies, property management companies, transportation Among the transport companies, 305 were personal complaints and the other 225 were related to government departments and public agencies, such as the Police Force.
The Office received 113 reports of data leakage incidents and conducted a regulatory review of each incident. Although the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance does not require data users to report data leakage incidents, the figures show that the number of data leakage incidents reported by public organizations increased by 65% year-on-year, reflecting that public organizations are more private Willing to report data leaks proactively.
As for the number of notifications from the private sector, which fell 34% year-on-year in the reporting year, it included a major data breach involving airlines involving 9.4 million passengers.
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