Amy Wong reports: The chief executive of Hong Kong Octopus Holdings Ltd. has resigned over its scandal of selling almost two million customer’s private data to third party, and the firm will donate HK$44 million ($5.7 million) in revenue to charity. […] The Octopus scandal has escalated with Chan on July 26 admitting that the…
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Hong Kong Privacy Chief Pushes for Regulation
Jeffrey Ng reports: Hong Kong’s outgoing privacy commissioner Friday urged the government to consider legislation to better regulate the actions of service monopolies such as Octopus Holdings Ltd., after the cashless-payment operator provoked public discontent when it admitted to selling personal data of nearly 2 million customers to business partners even though it earlier denied…
UK: Virgin’s email to opted-out customer broke rules, says ASA
Virgin Media broke advertising regulations when it sent an email promoting deals and offers to a customer who had opted out of marketing communications, the advertising regulator has said. The company had claimed the message was a service update. The advertising industry’s code of self-regulation, the CAP Code, governs how companies use databases for marketing…
Omo follows customers home with GPS-enabled products
Meghan Keane reports: Privacy advocates may not be happy with brands tracking consumers online, but a Brazilian detergent brand is set to begin tracking customers in the real world. Starting next week, Omo is embedding 50 detergent boxes with GPS devices as part of a new video camera giveaway. The campaign is sure to get…