Monthly Archives: January 2008

Starting point of legal/jurisdic research online (Updated)

法学文献检索导览 Overall – 大包围 HKU library for Ebooks and full text papers; Meta Find除纸面资料外,还整合了众多电子书、电子学位论文。用关键词检索,然后留意打开的页面下方的列出的相关subjects,即可了解这些主题下有哪些书和学位论文;电子书和论文可马上在线浏览 Worldcat- First SearchWorldCat是世界学术文献检索,包括书、论文、系列出版物和音像等其他形式的资料 Oxford Oxlip牛津图书馆 British Libray大英图书馆 IALS伦敦大学高等法律研究学院图书馆,整合了西语法学文献 Cujas巴黎大学法学图书馆,可检索所有法语类法学文献 LSE elibray伦敦政治经济学院的图书馆,可检索社科类文献 CiteULike.orgWeb2.0风格的参考文献网站,可按Tag订阅主题书籍 Monographs – 专著 google [More...]

Crisis of personal data protection during the construction of E-government

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...]