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Hong Kong Government Loses Laptops Containing Personal Data of 3.7 Million Voters (hongkongfp.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the careless-mistakes dept.

New submitter fatp writes: Hong Kong Free Press reports that the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) has lost two laptops containing the personal data of all 3.7 million voters after the chief executive election [on Sunday]. The REO said "the personal data was encrypted and there was no evidence that it had been leaked." Only 1,194 people had right to vote in the election.

3 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. the 1194 votes by SYSS+Mouse · · Score: 4, Informative

    The election committee has 1200 people, which covers a variety of official posts, industry representatives, etc. Some are ex officio (e.g. Legislative Council members) . Three member posts are vacant and three members are overlapped (i.e. hold mulitple posts due to their ex officio posts).

  2. Bigly by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    Just build a Great Firewall and make the mainland pay for it.

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    Table-ized A.I.
  3. Re:The telephone company called by quenda · · Score: 2

    The telephone book analogy is close.
    As in other modern societies, the electoral roll is a public record. It contains no secrets. But we still don't want telemarketers getting hold of it.