Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486)
What is Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486)?
The Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap 486, enacted 1996, significantly amended 2012 and 2021) regulates the collection, use, storage, and transfer of personal data. The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) oversees compliance. It comprises 13 controls organised across 13 domains, and applies in Hong Kong.
How Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) maps to other frameworks
All 13 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 13 domains Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486). The number is how many Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Vermont Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Data Act (AICDA)
2 shared controlsUSMCA Chapter 19 - Digital Trade (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement)
2 shared controlsTEFCA - Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement
2 shared controlsRhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA)
2 shared controlsRussia Federal Law on Personal Data (152-FZ)
2 shared controlsPrivacy Act 1988 (Australia)
2 shared controlsPakistan Personal Data Protection Bill 2023
2 shared controlsLaw No. 172-13 on the Protection of Personal Data
2 shared controlsWhere Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) overlaps with the standards you already hold
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Query Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) programmatically
Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486), its 13 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) API reference and MCP config →What Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap 486) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- HK-PDPO-DOXXING-2021-AMENDMENT-CESSATION-NOTICES-SECTION-64A-D HK PDPO 2021 Anti-Doxxing Amendment - Sections 64A-D + Cessation Notices + Two-Tier Criminal Offences + Extraterritorial Reach
- HK-PDPO-DPP3-USE-DIRECT-MARKETING-CONSENT-SECTION-35 HK PDPO DPP3 Use Limitation Principle + Direct Marketing Prescribed Consent (Sections 35A-N)
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