Hong Kong Hides Investors’ Identities from Public Scrutiny
Boon to money-launderers or privacy issue?
By: Tim Hamlett
It would be nice to think the Hong Kong government had stumbled into its recently-announced decision to protect the identities of businesspeople in the Companies Registry out of a well-intentioned effort to protect them from doxing, the practice of exposing identities without permission.
But there is an old saying in military circles: if …
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