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Appendix C
WORKING GROUP ON DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD HONG KONG
31 August 1985
Mr Peter K Y Tsao
Chairman
Working Group on Data Protection & Privacy
Government Secretariat
Lower Albert Road
Hong Kong
Report of the Private Sector Subcommittee
This report is a review of answers to the Questionnaire which was sent to 51 different organisations in order to obtain their individual responses to the possibility of Data Protection legislation.
A summary is provided and from it the following salient points emerge:
1. Voluntary Compliance is the most popular form of legislation
advocated.
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3.
A Tribunal should be formed with non-sanctionary powers. Principle 7 of the Eight Data Protection Principles would be modified so that control access is through the Data Protection Tribunal.
Access to personal data banks via the Tribunal would be conditional upon demonstratable evidence acceptable to the Tribunal.
The Private Sector Subcommittee recommends that the following points also be considered:
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5.
The Tribunal would then act as an interface on behalf of the alleged aggrieved individual with the operator of the per- sonal data bank.
The Tribunal would have power only to obtain information from the operator of the personal data bank concerning its operation in general and with regard to data on the indivi- dual in particular.
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