# Hong Kong SAR

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Hong Kong
- **ISO code**: HK
- **Type**: territory
- **Region**: Asia / Eastern Asia

## In brief

Hong Kong SAR has 3 recorded AI policy instruments, none of them binding. No AI-specific law; PCPD AI frameworks and Digital Policy Office guidance; financial-regulator circulars. Regulators include Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), Digital Policy Office, Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Hong Kong has no AI-specific statute.

## Overview

Hong Kong has no AI-specific statute. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) issued the Model Personal Data Protection Framework for AI (June 2024) and Guidance on Ethical Development and Use of AI (2021); the Digital Policy Office published the Ethical AI Framework for government (updated 2024) and a Generative AI Technical and Application Guideline (April 2025); the Securities and Futures Commission and Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued circulars on generative-AI use in financial services. The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance applies.

## Regulatory status

No AI-specific law; PCPD AI frameworks and Digital Policy Office guidance; financial-regulator circulars.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: PCPD Model Personal Data Protection Framework for AI (2024); Generative AI Technical and Application Guideline (2025).

## Regulators

- Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) — Data-protection authority; AI guidance — https://www.pcpd.org.hk/
- Digital Policy Office — Government AI ethics framework and generative-AI guideline — https://www.digitalpolicy.gov.hk/
- Hong Kong Monetary Authority — Banking supervision; generative-AI guidance for banks — https://www.hkma.gov.hk/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework — PCPD — https://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/resources_centre/publications/files/ai_protection_framework.pdf
- Ethical Artificial Intelligence Framework — Digital Policy Office — https://www.digitalpolicy.gov.hk/en/our_work/data_governance/policies_standards/ethical_ai_framework/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (3)

- **Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework** — Guidance, Guidance, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-pcpd-model-personal-data-protection-framework-for-ai
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-pcpd-model-personal-data-protection-framework-for-ai.md
- **Hong Kong Ethical Artificial Intelligence Framework (Digital Policy Office)** — Framework, Guidance, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-ethical-ai-framework
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-ethical-ai-framework.md
- **Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline** — Guidance, Guidance, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-generative-ai-technical-and-application-guideline
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/hong-kong-generative-ai-technical-and-application-guideline.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/hong-kong
- **Official source**: https://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/resources_centre/publications/files/ai_protection_framework.pdf
- **Source document**: Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework
- **Published by**: PCPD
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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