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Hong Kong’s Personal Data Protection Ordinance (PDPO)
July 19, 2022
Hong Kong’s Personal Data Protection Ordinance (PDPO)
Passed in 1995, Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO) is one of Asia’s most established data protection laws. Created in response to a 1994 Law Reform Commission Report, which suggested that Hong Kong establish an updated privacy law in line with the OECD guidelines, PDPO was introduced to provide Hong Kong with the levels of data privacy required to maintain the region’s prominence as an international trading hub.
