Personal Data Privacy Watchdog Wants Increased Powers To Combat Doxxing

The confrontation in the current Hong Kong protest movement has generated a new and alarming hostility between the Hong Kong police and the protester mass. In the eyes of neutral observers the police are a force provided to control and monitor peaceful protest.

In the eyes of the protesters who do in fact step over the lines of peaceful demonstration into violence which is met by the police with stern and sometimes equally matching violence although comparative examples of recent police action in Chile makes the Hong Kong force look soft and civil. The protesters have taken to "doxxing" which is the publication online of the personal data details of police officers which are widely broadcast and posted online through social media platforms and websites so that the doxxing personal data details of individual police officers and their families is transmitted into Hong Kong through social media on the internet. The practice is beyond the control of the Personal Data