Hong Kong - Information Privacy

A roundup of cybercriminal activity across the globe.Idaho —The state attorney general issued a consumer alert warning of widespread phishing scams targeting residents. Multiple individuals reported receiving phone calls and text messages claiming to come from their banks. The text falsely claimed ...

Hong Kong's privacy watchdog on Monday scolded four banks for releasing customers' personal data to third parties, accusing three of them of selling the information.The four banks -- Citibank, ICBC, Fubon Bank and Wing Hang Bank -- had all released customers' personal ...

The head of Hong Kong's pioneering e-payment operator Octopus Holdings has resigned, the company said Thursday, after it admitted selling the personal data of two million customers to businesses.The ubiquitous Octopus card has brought cashless payments to many facets of Hong Kong ...

Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city's privacy commissioner said was a first.The Internet giant is being investigated in a number of countries after the cars, ...

Experts from 50 nations meeting in Madrid have reached a draft agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data, participants said Friday.Under the proposed standards, data may only be processed after obtaining the " free, unambiguous and informed ...

Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data.US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well representatives from data protection ...

Experts from around the world gather from Wednesday in Madrid for a three-day conference that aims to hash out international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data.US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well as national privacy commissioners are among ...

Topic: Hong Kong

Threat report: Phishing in Idaho, VPN ban in Pakistan

Hong Kong banks sold customer data: watchdog

Hong Kong Octopus chief resigns after data sale

Google agrees to delete WiFi data collected in Hong Kong

Experts agree on proposed global privacy standards

Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules

Experts to hash out global data privacy rules in Spain

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