Hong Kong:
Privacy Commissioner Completes Compliance Check On Social Media Data Incident
12 November 2018
Jones Day
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On August 22, the Privacy Commissioner issued a
press release announcing the completion of its compliance check
into suspected misuse of users' personal data on a social media
platform. The compliance check found no evidence that any account
holders in Hong Kong were affected by the incident but recommends
that social media operators adopt a culture of data protection.
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