Hong Kong\u2019s privacy watchdog is investigating risks to early users of HSBC\u2019s popular PayMe mobile app after the Post discovered some remain unaware their personal details may have been exposed.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) told the Post on Monday that the compliance review would \u201clook into all relevant issues, including the vulnerability of legacy users and the need for in-app prompts\u201d.<\/p>\n
The watchdog said the bank must ensure the highest level of privacy protection by default.<\/p>\n
This follows HSBC\u2019s statement that since 2019, users have been able to choose the level of visibility of their transaction history within the app.<\/p>\n
One of Hong Kong\u2019s largest e-payment platforms, PayMe serves more than 100,000 local and online merchants, from retail shops to taxis across the city.<\/p>\n
At the centre of concern are early adopters of the app\u2019s 3.2 million users who signed up during its initial phase as a peer-to-peer social payment app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s privacy watchdog is investigating risks to early users of HSBC\u2019s popular PayMe mobile app after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[137681,137682,6875,137680,22411,2306,137678,137683,137676,137679,86,56,137677,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-358282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-august-2024","9":"tag-data-protection-principle-3","10":"tag-hong-kong","11":"tag-hongkong-and-shanghai-banking-corporation","12":"tag-hsbc","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-office-of-the-privacy-commissioner-for-personal-data","15":"tag-payme","16":"tag-personal-data-privacy-ordinance","17":"tag-privacy-by-default","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-unionpay","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}