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Guidance on Data Breach Handling and the Giving of Breach Notifications

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Summary

This guidance note aims to assist data users in handling data breaches, and to mitigate the loss and damage caused to the data subjects concerned, particularly when sensitive personal data is involved.

Issuer

Hong Kong

Year

2015

Region

Asia

Issuer (type)

Office of the Privavy Commissioner for Personal Data (Government)

Instrument type

Guidance

Disclosure instrument

No

Geographical scope

National

Mandatory or voluntary

Voluntary

Text analysis

    • Moderate 0.61%
    • Low 0.00%
    • S focus: data security, data privacy
    • G focus: accountability
    • Information, Manufacturing