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cases involving personal credit, criminal tendency, or can

be small as in a survey on interest in new products. GDPR,
came into force from 25th May 2018 and requires all EU
countries to authorise users to obtain their own personal
data already collected for free, and to request the removal

or transfer of their data to other organisations. Users may
also request organisations to provide an explanation of the
assumptions made by algorithms if they suspect they have
been treated in an unfair manner.

206 HK Observatory's example: Open data
reinforces authority

Government and public organisations may worry that
opening data to the public would damage their authority.

The 20 years of experience of opening data from the Hong
Kong Observatory (HKO) shows that high data transparency
helps to reduce public suspicion, and thus enhances the
trust with an organisation.

As retold by Lam Chiu Ying, the former Director of the
HKO, with the intensive flow of global information in the