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Written by: Yuan Yan
2020-04-03 11:06
Last updated: 2020-04-03 11:06The epidemic of COVID-19 new coronavirus pneumonia is becoming increasingly serious, and the number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong continues to increase. Octopus Limited announced yesterday (2nd) that at the request of the Li Ka-shing Medical College of the University of Hong Kong, it agreed to provide aggregated information about the Octopus to assist the research project of the University of Hong Kong Medical School to curb the spread of the virus in Hong Kong. The information provided by Octopus will not include personal information such as identity information.
The Octopus said that the data provided only includes aggregated usage data, which relates to Octopus card usage data from January 1, 2020 until the government announced the end of the epidemic. Octopus means that the identity of any person cannot be identified in the information, and does not include the identity of any individual, such as name, ID number, phone number, email address, card identification code and Octopus number, or individual Octopus usage data, and does not involve any The definition of "personal data" in the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. The University of Hong Kong Medical School and Octopus have reached an agreement, and the data is only used for research projects.
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The University of Hong Kong Medical School said that the University of Hong Kong Medical School said that the global consensus is to use the immediate reproduction rate (Rt) as an indicator to grasp the development of the epidemic. To further shorten the lag of estimated Rt, more data is needed, and Octopus is one of the important data sources. The aggregated data of the Octopus can provide the University of Hong Kong Medical School with information about the contact patterns and intensity of Hong Kong residents in different regions; it can also play a considerable role in further reducing the lag of estimated Rt.
Octopus also consulted the Personal Data Privacy Commissioner before providing relevant information, and the Personal Data Privacy Commissioner believes that the Personal Data Protection Principles will not apply if the personal data under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance is not involved . The information disclosed is also in accordance with the "Octopus Card Issue Terms".
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