Notes on Complaint & Enquiry Cases related to Exemptions

Case No.: 1998128	Disclosure of accounts of a deceased is not in breach of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance but if the information relates to third parties, consent of those third parties is required.
Case No.: 1998111	Collecting and using ID card number for the purposes of public examinations.
Case No.: 2008107	Practice of a godown operator requiring copy of ID card from customers when setting up accounts and recording ID card numbers of persons when taking delivery of goods to or from the godown.
Case No.: 1997009	Access request to employment related personal data
Case No.: 1997011	Access request to employment-related personal data
Case No.: 2000115	Collection of ID copy of an individual guarantor by an equipment leasing company.
Case No.: 2000114	Whether a medical expert is obliged to disclose his expert medical report to opposite party in a litigation.
Case No.: 2000110	Whether a telecom services provider should disclose the identity of the sender of a disparaging fax.
Case No.: 2000104	Whether a medical institution should release the last known address and clinical data of patients to a government department for the purpose of enforcing a monetary court order.
Case No.: 2000120	Whether an insurer could exchange with other insurers claims history of a claimant suspected of dishonesty.
Case No.: 2001110	Whether the data of the participants to a government programme could be disclosed to a local university for conducting an evaluation and planning survey.
Case No.: 1997021	Disclosure of personal data of a staff to news media
Case No.: 2004010	Employer disclosed the information about disciplinary proceedings to the complainant's doctors
Case No.: 2004011	Disclosure of witness statement in reporting crime and illegal acts
Case No.: 2003010	Disclosure of the complainant's personal data by a property management company to a neighbour
Case No.: 2005001	Access request refused under section 58(1) of the Ordinance
Case No.: 2004014	Common law on disclosure for fair trial
Case No.: 2007101	Posting of individual's personal data publicly on a website
Case No.: 2005017	Collection of customer's ID number by a petrol company
Case No.: 2007006	Disclosure of email subscriber's personal data by email service provider to PRC law enforcement authority
Case No.: 2007008	Access request refused under section 53 of the Ordinance
Case No.: 2008101	Whether a government doctor could disclose the personal data of an underaged girl to another government department without the consent of her "legal guardian"
Case No.: 2007014	Access request refused under section 61(1) of the Ordinance
Case No.: 2007019	Employee complained her employer refused to comply with Data Access Request
Case No.: 2009006	This page only provides Chinese version temporarily
Case No.: 2009011	The law enforcement agency provided a copy of the statement to the loss adjustor acting for the bus company