Region: Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner has issued an enforcement notice to a healthcare company for unlawful cross-brand data sharing practices.

16 November 2022

A digital marketing agency in Hong Kong has been the victim of a ransomware attack that has exposed the data of some of the world’s biggest companies.

27 October 2021

A lab that used Chinese gene company BGI Group's prenatal blood tests and services has suspended data transfers to Hong Kong following a German regulator’s fears that data protection rules have been breached.

16 July 2021

An English-qualified barrister and long-time government lawyer is set to take over as Hong Kong’s new data protection commissioner.

28 July 2020

Legal uncertainty and geopolitical rumblings in the Asia-Pacific region have led local businesses to reconsider their data storage strategies, observers say.

23 June 2020

In a post-GDPR world, Hong Kong’s privacy czar wants to drag the region’s data protection framework into the 21st century.

20 January 2020

Featured in Country surveys 2019

11 December 2019

Former Hong Kong privacy enforcer Carmen Tang has become a partner at Hugill & Ip.

16 October 2019

Hong Kong’s privacy enforcer has ordered airline Cathay Pacific to enhance its cybersecurity in the wake of a data breach that affected nearly 10 million customers.

07 June 2019

A Hong Kong court has fined Citibank for continuing to contact a man who opted out of direct marketing.

23 May 2019