Promoting Awareness

Over the past year, the PCPD organized a wide range of promotional and media activities for the community. Tailor-made educational and training programs were also implemented to promote data privacy protection.

Promotional Activities

1 "Pursuing Excellence - Protecting Personal Data": Hotel Privacy Campaign

Privacy Commissioner Mr. Roderick Woo (right), and renowned artist Miss Sheren Tang at the inauguration ceremony of the activity on 27 June 2006.

Hotel practitioners handle large amount of personal data in their daily work. In order to raise privacy awareness among them, the PCPD had invited the Hong Kong Hotels Association to jointly launch an industry-wide educational campaign for all local hotels.

The campaign, entitled "Pursuing Excellence - Protecting Personal Data", offered a number of training initiatives, including seminars, display panels, games and a quiz, which provided practical guidance on the collection and use of personal data. To cater for the industry's work nature i.e. irregular working hours and diversified duties, the PCPD had also developed an innovative Online Self-Training Module (www.privacyelearning.org) to enable hotel personnel to learn relevant data protection skills at their own convenience and pace.

The campaign had received overwhelming response from the hotel industry. Over 44 hotels engaged in more than one of the activities of the campaign. Besides, hotel practitioners also took keen participation in a writing competition in expressing their feelings about and experiences of the protection of personal data in daily life.

In concluding the Campaign, a prize presentation ceremony was held on 14 December 2006. Winners of the Writing Competition, Online Self-Training Assessment Competition and 8 hotels with the highest completion rate of the Self-Training Module were awarded with cash prizes and trophies. Eight of the participating hotels with the highest completion rate of the Self-Training Module were awarded for their enthusiastic support, namely the Island Shangri-La Hong Kong, JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, Hotel Miramar, Hotel Nikko Hongkong, The Peninsula Hong Kong, Prudential Hotel, Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Hong Kong and The Royal Garden.

Hotel Industry Online Self-Training Module (www.privacyelearning.org)

Privacy Days and Seminars of the Hotel Privacy Campaign.

Privacy Commissioner Mr. Roderick Woo (second right, first row), Executive Director of the Hong Kong Hotels Association, Mr. James Lu (middle, first row) and winners of the Hotel Privacy Campaign.