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Summary of the Answers to the Questionaire
No. of Replies
Categories
Professional Societries
Industrial/Trade
Organisation
No. Sent
No. Answered
20
10
20
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5
10
Academic Institutions
Utilities
Personal Information
652
5
2
533
1
Providers
Miscellaneous
8
5
51
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Consolidation of Comments
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All replies (except HK Society of Accountants) gave point by point comments to the questionaire.
Extracts of salient points from the replies were thus consolidated under each separate question. These points were also highlighted in their replies.
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A serial no. was assigned to each receipient and this no. shown on the extracts as well as marked on the replies (no. circled in red) for easy of reference.
Hightlights of the Answers
Need for some specific protective measures
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Except for HK Society of Accountants (5) and Insurance Council of HK(13), all agreed that some specific measures need to be formulated.
Most were concerned with the passing of information from one organisation to another especially in the finance sector and among government depts.
HK Institution of Engineers (7) considered opportune now to tie the control of personal information down to good ethical standards before HK Authority changes hand.
EDP Auditors Association (17) considered legislation should be quite material because of insufficient laws concerning computer crime and fear of "Big Brother" holding significant data of its citizens.
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