Data HK provides access to over one million open data sets from international, EU, national, and regional data portals. Users can browse datasets in line graphs, cross sectional plots or maps; additionally they can create their own dashboards through this website.

Although Hong Kong’s definition of personal data hasn’t changed since PDPO was initially implemented in 1996, it remains in line with international norms on what constitutes “personal data,” as evidenced in laws like mainland China’s Personal Information Protection Law or Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. Thus, the PDPO defines personal data as information which relates directly or indirectly to an identifiable individual.

The PDPO makes clear that personal data must be collected lawfully and fairly, with its purpose limited in scope. Furthermore, data subjects must give their consent for its collection to be used for that specific purpose. Furthermore, data users are obliged to implement measures or contractual commitments designed to safeguard their users’ personal data against unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure, loss or use – while keeping it no longer than necessary to fulfill its original goal of collection.

Investigations and prosecutions related to direct marketing practices remain one of the primary means of upholding data protection laws. Under particular statute, any data user who discloses an individual’s personal data for direct marketing without their consent commits a criminal offence.

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