In an op-ed for the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s former privacy commissioner for personal data, Allan Chiang, wrote that Cathay Pacific’s data breach warranted an investigation from the beginning, rather than a compliance check. Explaining the purposes of each, Chiang wrote, “The Cathay Pacific data breach is clearly a serious incident,” adding that it “should suffice in passing the legal threshold to initiate an investigation.” Pointing to what he calls the “drastic drop in the number of self-initiated investigations and enforcement notices issued,” Chiang criticized the incumbent commissioner of suffering a “transparency issue.”
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