Under 30% of Hong Kong organisations have AI guidelines for staff: watchdog
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Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung Lai-ling said on Sunday that further amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance were needed to reduce the risk of data leakage, after her office released guidelines aimed at helping companies to regulate AI usage among their staff.
She said the use of generative AI tools in the workplace was becoming increasingly prevalent.
But Chung noted that while 68 per cent of organisations were aware of the associated privacy risks, only 55 per cent had developed an AI risk policy or were planning to create one.
'The number that have actually formulated one is less than 30 per cent,' she told a radio programme.
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Chung said small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could lack the resources to develop internal AI usage policies.
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