Reaction and limits of Hong Kong privacy laws Paper presented on ICEGOV 2007, Macao (1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance) The government of Hong Kong has achieved remarkable staged results according to its comprehensive E-government blueprint. At the same time, it is its statutory responsibility to protect privacy and personal data. However, there has been a succession of incidents of unauthorized leakage onto Internet of personal data held by the agencies of Hong Kong government since 2006. These incidents occurred during the implementation of E-government, and aroused the public’s deep concern of their privacy rights impacted by the Internet and the security of their personal data held by government agencies. This paper studies two typical cases of personal data leakage, one arising during the internal outsourcing process, the other occurring in external online service to citizens. It analyzes how the existing privacy regime addresses [More...]

  “迟来的正义即拒绝给予正义。” « Justitia dilata est justitia negate. » ――拉丁法谚 “……为避免当事人的权益在行政诉讼期间或者之前遭到不可弥补的损失，原告 应有权申请法官采取暂时性的措施，以保障其权利或者保存其证据。若 事态之紧急已经达至其审查不容耽搁的地步，法官必须临机处分，以防 止时间的推移造成不利于一方当事人的不公后果；然而，又为了避免另 一方当事人因此蒙受不公，法官的裁定不应该影响终局的判决。因之， 一方权利的保障来自法官的临时处分权，另一方权利的维护则源自对临时处分权的限制。……” ――Charles Debbasch et al. Contentieux administratif. 7e éd., Paris : Dalloz, la série du Précis de droit public, 2001 : 535. [More...]