The Ordinance

Code of Practice on the Identity Card Number and other Personal Identifiers

V. ALL PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS (INCLUDING THE IDENTITY CARD NUMBER)

The following paragraph seeks to give practical effect to the Personal Data Security SafeguardPrinciple (Data Protection Principle 4):

5.1

A data user shall take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the security of any system it controls for assigning a personal identifier to an individual. Such steps shall include all reasonably practicable measures to safeguard against the unauthorised assignment of the personal identifier to an individual and to prevent the unauthorised production of the identification documents, if any, it issues bearing the personal identifier that it assigns to individuals.

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