Proposed new amendments, detailed in a new paper [PDF], aim to make the practice explicitly illegal with changes to the Territory's Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (PDPO).
The amendments also seek to give Hong Kong's authorities the power to enforce content takedowns, which is needed because only two thirds of requests to platforms to remove doxxed content were successful.
Out of the total cases, 1460 were referred on to the police for violating section 64 of the PDPO, which the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Block detailed as:
Under section 64(2) of the PDPO, a person will commit an offence if he discloses, irrespective of his intent, any personal data of a data subject obtained from a data user without the data user’s consent and the disclosure causes psychological harm to the data subject.