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Date: 31 December 2021

Appointment of Two New Members to the Standing Committee on Technological Developments of the PCPD

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, announced the appointments of two new members, namely Prof WONG Kam Fai and Prof YIU Siu Ming, to the Standing Committee on Technological Developments (SCTD) of the PCPD on 31 December 2021 for a two-year term from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023.

Prof WONG is the Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology of CUHK, and Professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management of the CUHK. His research interests focus on Chinese computing, database and information retrieval.

Prof YIU is currently a Professor and an Associate Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is also the Deputy Executive Director of HKU-SCF (Standard-Chartered Foundation) FinTech Academy. His research areas include cyber security, cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, fintech and bioinformatics.

Separately, three incumbent members, namely Mr Francis FONG, Prof Jason LAU and Mr Mark PARSONS, have been re-appointed to the SCTD as members.

The Privacy Commissioner would also like to take the opportunity to thank two outgoing members, Prof John BACON-SHONE and Dr K P CHOW, and all incumbent members, for their invaluable contributions and advice to the SCTD.

The current membership of the SCTD (in alphabetical order of surname) is as follows:

• Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling (Privacy Commissioner) (Co-chairperson)
• Mr T Y LEE (Deputy Privacy Commissioner) (Co-chairperson)
• Mr Francis FONG
• Prof Jason LAU
• Mr Mark PARSONS
• Prof K F WONG (new member)
• Prof Y B YEUNG
• Prof S M YIU (new member)

The SCTD was established to advise the Privacy Commissioner on, among other things, the impacts of the developments in the processing of data and information technology on the privacy of individuals in relation to personal data.