- July 13, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
During the Hong Kong protests in 2019, doxing — the malicious sharing of personal information online — was rife.
Protesters used Facebook and Telegram to broadcast the details of police officers accused of violence, and government supporters published the private information of opposition politicians, activists and journalists.
“Such weaponisation is arguably the worst form of data [use] in action we have ever seen,” said Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner for personal data. From mid-June 2019 to March 2020, there were about 5,000 incidents of doxing reported to, or uncovered by, the commissioner, according to the department’s annual report. A number of people who had shared the personal details of police officers were jailed. For 2020 as a whole, the number of doxing cases had dropped to about 1,000 as the protests fell away during the pandemic.
Hong Kong is now taking further action on doxing with changes to data privacy…
