CLIC - Personal Data Privacy: Consumer credit data - Enquiry Case Notes from the PCO – A bank has received a letter from a firm of solicitors acting for the administrator of the estate of a deceased person. The bank is requested to disclose certain records in relation to accounts which are in the name of the deceased. However the records also include information relating to third parties. Is such disclosure a contravention of the Ordinance?
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14. Enquiry Case Notes from the PCO – A bank has received a letter from a firm of solicitors acting for the administrator of the estate of a deceased person. The bank is requested to disclose certain records in relation to accounts which are in the name of the deceased. However the records also include information relating to third parties. Is such disclosure a contravention of the Ordinance?

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Please read the answer provided by the PCO at http://www.pco.org.hk/english/casenotes/case_enquiry2.php?id=20