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Written by: Guo Haotian
2021-05-14 23:55
Last update date: 2021-05-14 23:56
The Education Director of the Education Bureau was suspected of logging into the Bureau's Secondary One Places Allocation System more than 10 times to check the grades of the sons who will be promoted to secondary school and several classmates, and was charged with dishonest access to computers.
The case was ruled in the Kwun Tong Court today (14th). The magistrate alleged that the defendant had violated privacy to a large extent or violated departmental guidelines, but the prosecution failed to prove that he had benefited from dishonesty and ruled that the education officer was not guilty of all charges. Recover the costs.
Defendant Peng Weijie (57 years old) was charged with using the Secondary One Places Allocation System and the database computer system in the Education Information System of the Education Bureau from August 2016 to September 2017 for the purpose of making him or others dishonest To benefit.
The defendant joined the Education Bureau in September 1996 and was transferred to the degree assignment group as the director of education in July 2016. In August of the same year, he declared that his son would be promoted to Secondary One in September of the following year.
When the magistrate ruled, the defendant’s position has the right to access the computer system and check the grades of primary school students. The Education Bureau will standardize the results of the sub-examinations submitted by the students and make uniform adjustments to calculate the grade of school students.
During the accused period, the defendant checked the results of his son and his schoolmates and made a trial balance. The information was helpful in calculating his son’s ranking. However, the witnesses of the Education Bureau also admitted that the defendant’s access to such information did not allow him to gain Benefit, because the final ranking will still be affected by other factors.
The school teacher also pointed out that the information is not completely accurate, and it may not be beneficial for parents to obtain it.
In addition, the defendant did not conceal that he had searched for information. However, he used the personal information of his son's classmates to infringe the privacy of others and possibly violate departmental guidelines.
The magistrate stated that the court had to consider whether his actions were dishonestly profitable. He believed that the prosecution had not fully proved this point, and therefore ruled that the defendant was not guilty of all 10 counts. At the same time, he believed that the Attorney General thought that he had entered the computer to extract information when studying the case. , There must have been dishonest intentions, believing that the prosecution did not fully refer to the case, so the prospective defense recovered the costs.
Case Number: KTCC1555/2020
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