The Privacy Commissioner’s Office has Completed Compliance Checks on 60 Organisations to Ensure AI Security
With the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming increasingly prevalent, more and more organisations use AI in their operations. Nevertheless, the privacy and security risks associated with AI should not be overlooked. To understand the usage of AI in Hong Kong and its impact on personal data privacy, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) carried out compliance checks on 28 local organisations from August 2023 to February 2024 and provided practical recommendations to organisations which developed or used AI[1].
To implement the policy direction from the “Two Sessions” to promote the “AI Plus” Initiative and the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Development Blueprint promulgated by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as well as to promote the safe and healthy development of AI in Hong Kong, the PCPD has begun a new round of compliance checks in February 2025. The compliance checks covered 60 local organisations (Organisations) across various sectors, including telecommunications, banking and finance, insurance, beauty services, retail, transportation, education, medical services, public utilities, social services and government departments, and aim to understand whether the Organisations complied with the relevant requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO) in the collection, use and processing of personal data during the use of AI. Meanwhile, the compliance checks also examined the Organisations’ implementation of the recommendations and best practices provided in the “Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework”[2] (Model Framework) published by the PCPD in 2024, as well as their governance as regards the use of AI. Based on the findings of the compliance checks, the PCPD published a report today and has the following major observations as regards the Organisations’ data protection practices when they used AI (see Annex for details):
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