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What's New - Reaching Out to the Community － Assistant Privacy Commissioner Interviewed by Media to Remind Public to Stay Vigilant Against Fraudulent Advertisements Recruiting Construction Workers
Date: 2 February 2026
Reaching Out to the Community － Assistant Privacy Commissioner Interviewed by Media to Remind Public to Stay Vigilant Against Fraudulent Advertisements Recruiting Construction Workers
The Assistant Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Complaints and Criminal Investigation), Ms Rebecca HO Kan-yeuk, was interviewed by RTHK News’ “Hong Kong Today” and RTHK Radio 1’s “HK2000” on 29 and 30 January respectively to explain the complaint cases received by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) relating to fraudulent recruitment advertisements.
During the interview, the Assistant Privacy Commissioner pointed out that the PCPD received 42 complaints earlier, all of which related to suspected personal data frauds using fraudulent recruitment advertisements for job vacancies in the construction industry. In these cases, the construction workers concerned came across messages about the recruitment of construction casual workers posted on various social media platforms and instant messaging groups (including WhatsApp, Facebook and WeChat groups) and provided their personal data to the publisher of the recruitment messages (Publisher) , but subsequently the Publisher could no longer be contacted.
She reminded members of the public to authenticate the identities of recruiters or intermediaries, avoid disclosing personal data arbitrarily, retain records of all communications related to the recruitment process and pay attention to fraud prevention information published by the authorities.
The interview by RTHK News’ “Hong Kong Today” can be listened here (54:51 – 59:39) (Chinese only).
The interview by RTHK Radio 1’s “HK2000” can be listened here (Chinese only).
During the interview, the Assistant Privacy Commissioner pointed out that the PCPD received 42 complaints earlier, all of which related to suspected personal data frauds using fraudulent recruitment advertisements for job vacancies in the construction industry. In these cases, the construction workers concerned came across messages about the recruitment of construction casual workers posted on various social media platforms and instant messaging groups (including WhatsApp, Facebook and WeChat groups) and provided their personal data to the publisher of the recruitment messages (Publisher) , but subsequently the Publisher could no longer be contacted.
She reminded members of the public to authenticate the identities of recruiters or intermediaries, avoid disclosing personal data arbitrarily, retain records of all communications related to the recruitment process and pay attention to fraud prevention information published by the authorities.
The interview by RTHK News’ “Hong Kong Today” can be listened here (54:51 – 59:39) (Chinese only).
The interview by RTHK Radio 1’s “HK2000” can be listened here (Chinese only).
The Assistant Privacy Commissioner (Complaints and Criminal Investigation), Ms Rebecca HO Kan-yeuk, was interviewed by RTHK Radio 1’s “HK2000”.