Case Notes

Complaint & Enquiry Cases

Notes on Complaint & Enquiry Cases related to Human resources

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Case No.: 2008106

Whether an employer can ascertain from the Police matters relating to prosecution of an employee.

Case No.: 2008103

Whether recording of telephone conversations between customers and staff is in breach of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.

Case No.: 1998129

Disclosure of staff information by a company to its Staff Union not considered a contravention under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.

Case No.: 1998132

Whether disclosure of results of Teaching Evaluation to students is a contravention of the Ordinance.

Case No.: 1998137

Collection of ID card number by the employer is permissible pursuant to section 17J of the Immigration Ordinance (Cap 115) requiring employers to inspect the ID card of a prospective employee before employing him.

Case No.: 1998125

A data user should not issue to any individual any card bearing the ID card number of that individual.

Case No.: 1997005

Employee resignation notice containing excessive data

Case No.: 1997009

Access request to employment related personal data

Case No.: 1997011

Access request to employment-related personal data

Case No.: 2000113

Whether the requirement that existing staff members seeking re-engagement or contract renewal must make fresh financial declarations amounts to excessive collection of personal data.

Case No.: 2000117

Whether an organization could provide computer logs of staff members to a supervisory authority for investigation purpose.

Case No.: 2000107

Whether a company could provide the employment history of its advisors to a director of the company.

Case No.: 2001112

Whether a memo amounts to personal data of one of its recipients.

Case No.: 2001107

Whether the disclosure by domestic helpers of their employers' addresses and telephone numbers for their personal purposes contravenes the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ("the Ordinance").

Case No.: 2001108

Whether a company has the right to ask an existing employee to sign an acknowledgement of a Personal Information Collection Statement issued by the Company.

Case No.: 2000112

Whether a tertiary education institution, in asking for a job applicant's age and marital status, contravenes the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance

Case No.: 2002002

Data access request invloving 'files minutes' held by a government department

Case No.: 2002005

Posting of a complaint letter on a notice board

Case No.: 2004101

Whether in the course of discharging job duties, a Government Department can compel the utterance of name of the staff or the production of the staff identity card containing personal data of the staff when he is so requested by members of public?

Case No.: 2001010

Data access request to ex-employer for copy of statement made about the complainant

Case No.: 2001008

Supply of Consolidated Document List

Case No.: 2002010

Disclosure of an employee's medical records by employer for the purpose of convening a medical board according to applicable Regulations

Case No.: 2008004

Collect fingerprint data of employees for the purposes of monitoring their time-and-attendance and ensuring office security is excessive

Case No.: 2000002

Data access request made by an ex-employee

Case No.: 2000004

Data correction request to ex-employer

Case No.: 2005103

The disclosure by the MPF trustees of the bankruptcy status of an employee member under the MPF scheme to his employer

Case No.: 1997019

Definition of 'personal data'

Case No.: 1997021

Disclosure of personal data of a staff to news media

Case No.: 1999003

Data access request made in relation to a minutes of meeting recording report of an accident

Case No.: 2004006

Compliance with data access request

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.: 2005002

Disclosure of a teacher's personal data by the Headmistress of a kindergarten without the teacher's consent

Case No.: 2005003

Sick leave records collected for human resources purposes

Case No.: 2004018

Disclosure by employer University of personal data about performance of a teacher rated in evaluation questionnaires completed by students

Case No.: 2005010

Data access request made by ex-employee

Case No.: 2004019

Data access request made by an ex-employee

Case No.: 2005019

Non-compliance with data access request by medical practitioner

Case No.: 2007107

The "40-day period" of a data access request

Case No.: 2007010

Collection by the employer of the past medical records from employees under the threat of disciplinary proceedings

Case No.: 2007008

Access request refused under section 53 of the Ordinance

Case No.: 2008010

An employer obtained a VCD containing images of his employee who neglected his duty during working hours, and the employer later used the VCD as evidence to dismiss the employee.

Case No.: 2006013

Non-compliance with data access request.

Case No.: 2005021

Disclosure of warning email by complainant's supervisor without consent

Case No.: 2008011

Data correction request cannot be made verbally

Case No.: 2007019

Employee complained her employer refused to comply with Data Access Request

Case No.: 2006014

Employee complained her employer logged in her computer collecting cookies without notifying her

Case No.: 2009001

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Case No.: 2009006

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