The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has welcomed a Hospital Authority pilot program aimed at increasing newborns' safety. The program will don newborn babies with smaller and tighter identification tags, the commissioner's office reports. The tags will set off an alarm if an unauthorized person carries a baby out of the hospital ward. The program comes after an incident last year involving the mix-up of two babies' identities. "The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance was enacted to protect the personal data of all living individuals no matter how young they are," Commissioner Roderick Woo said.  
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