Hong Kong should speed up privacy law reforms aimed at penalising companies over data breaches, a cybersecurity expert and a lawmaker have said after hundreds of thousands of residents had their personal information exposed amid a spate of leaks.
The calls were made on Thursday, a day after the city’s privacy watchdog launched an investigation into a possible breach at the local branch of international charity Oxfam, which potentially affected more than 470,000 people. “I think the privacy law is under amendments. I hope it can be rolled out as soon as possible,” Francis Fong Po-kiu, honorary president of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, told a radio programme.
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Source: South China Morning Post
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