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Nurturing Young Talents – Privacy Commissioner Presented the Privacy Commissioner Prizes in Privacy and Data Protection Law 2020-21 and 2021-22

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-Ling, presented the 2020-21 and 2021-22 Privacy Commissioner Prizes in Privacy and Data Protection Law to recognise the best research papers submitted in the respective years in the study of privacy and data protection laws.

The Prizes were presented at the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), on 1 September 2022 to Ms Phoebe Woo Chor Kiu, who has obtained her Bachelor of Laws and PCLL at the HKU, and Ms Annie Man Sum Yi, who has obtained her Juris Doctor at the HKU and is now pursuing PCLL at the HKU. The winning essays are respectively entitled ‘Doxxing in Hong Kong – Way Forward’ and ‘Privacy and data protection challenges posed by the increasing use of Big Data and critically examine how Hong Kong laws can meet these challenges’.

The winning essays can be viewed on https://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/news_events/events_programmes/others/PCPiPaDPL.html.

The Privacy Commissioner presented the 2020-21 Privacy Commissioner Prize in Privacy and Data Protection Law to Ms Phoebe Woo Chor Kiu.