1998 Opinion Survey

Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance: Attitudes and Implementation
- Key Findings

Survey Of Organizations

A mail questionnaire survey of data users was conducted from mid-February to early April in 1998. A total of 434 organizations responded. The questionnaire asked about:

• measures taken to comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("the Ordinance? including staff arrangements;
  
  
• compliance with the Ordinance and policies and practices in relation to protection of personal data privacy;
  
  
• sources of assistance including the PCPD and representative bodies;
  
  
• attitudes towards the Ordinance.
  

The key findings are summarized as follows:

1.	Compliance with the Ordinance Most respondents took steps to comply with the Ordinance and 9% (17% in 1997) had not yet taken any measures to comply (Fig. 14).

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