Financial hubs depend on the free flow of information, and nowhere more so
than in Hong Kong, gateway to the opaque China market. So a recent case in
which an appeals board upheld the censorship of a court judgment to protect
the supposed privacy rights of the litigants sets a bad precedent. The
territory is following Europe’s lead toward extreme privacy protection at
the expense of access to information.

Luciana Wong Wai-lan, who now serves on several government advisory panels,
participated in a matrimonial case in the early 2000s. In 2010 Ms. Wong
requested that the court remove the judgments from its online reference
system. The court made them anonymous, but hyperlinks to the judgments
placed on the website of local shareholder activist David Webb
<http://topics.wsj.com/person/W/David-Webb/1213> still revealed her name.


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