Privacy Department receives 1,611 complaints from law enforcement officials at least 100 times, prompting Telegram to remove links

Politics

Written by: Ruimin Zhai

2020-04-02 00:26

An anti-revision storm has made Hong Kong's "bottom up" culture indiscriminate. According to the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau's reply to the question of the Legislative Council Special Finance Committee, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data received nearly 1,800 complaints concerning the bottom-out of public officials from the end of February last year to the end of February this year. From the beginning of last year to the end of February this year, the Privacy Department handled 1,611 cases involving the bottom-up of law enforcement officers or their relatives and friends.

11 arrested for breach of underlying legislation

According to the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau documents, the online platforms involved in "bottom" complaints include Lin Deng, Gordon, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram, etc., while the personal data being bottomed out include names, photos, ID numbers, births Date, address, telephone, email, education, family status, occupation and position, etc., the authorities stated that some of the bottom posts contain "content that is provocative and intimidating that may cause psychological harm to the person concerned".

Request to remove more than 2,700 links 70% success

Regarding the 1,611 cases involving law enforcement officers or their relatives and friends being bottomed out, the Privacy Department has written to the involved Internet platform more than 150 times and requested to move more than 2,700 links, 70% of which were removed.

In addition, from this year to the end of February, 11 people have been arrested by the police for violating the relevant laws and regulations, and 1 person has been arrested for improperly disclosing the personal data of others online.

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