Hong Kong police will for the first time deploy drones to detect traffic violations starting on Sunday, with the aim of enhancing road safety in accident-prone areas. Police announced the initiative on Thursday during a briefing in which they also revealed that the number of fatal crashes in the first seven months of this year…
The head of Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has said there is no immediate need to amend the law to specifically target the creation of AI-generated deepfake pornography, stressing that existing legislation is sufficient to handle offences. In her most detailed comments following a recent high-profile case at the University of Hong Kong, Ada Chung Lai-ling…
HK Express, the budget carrier of Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways, mistakenly directed a member to log into another customer’s account due to a “scripting error”, enabling him to access the other’s personal information including their birth date, according to the privacy watchdog’s latest investigations. The other seven data leak cases revealed on Monday by…
A 23-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly disclosing the personal information of her former boyfriend after he dated someone else, Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has said. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data apprehended the woman in the New Territories on Tuesday on suspicion of contravening the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, following…
Hong Kong welfare authorities may expand the definition of “high-risk carer” and look into providing more direct help to needy families after a three-year-old girl was found crying alone next to the body of her 40-year-old mother who was suspected to have died days earlier. Undersecretary for Labour and Welfare Ho Kai-ming said on Saturday…
Hong Kong’s digital policy body has called for a ban on generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose threats to human safety and extensive supervision of such software if it must be used in critical infrastructure, as part of new guidelines. Speaking at the second day of the World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit on Tuesday,…
Less than 30 per cent of organisations in Hong Kong have established guidelines for employees using artificial intelligence (AI), the city’s privacy commissioner has said, urging companies to avoid inputting sensitive data into such tools as much as possible. Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung Lai-ling said on Sunday that further amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy)…