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In HK, Octopus tracking is the least of our worries
- Tuesday | 18th June, 2019
Can the Hong Kong police track you with your Octopus card? In 2010, it admitted selling personal data of 1.97 million customers to half a dozen companies in violation of local data privacy laws. Also, that same year, the police used Octopus data (along with lots of CCTV tapes) to track down a suspect in an acid-attack case. According to a ComputerWorld Hong Kong report in 2015, CEO Sunny Cheung said that the system doesn’t record things like what you purchased or where you get on or off the train. Who needs Octopus to track your every move when Facebook and Twitter can do it far more efficiently and accurately?
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