# Day 2 Session 2: Privacy, surveillance and data protection

**Time: 5:00 UTC - 6:30 UTC**

<span style="font-weight: 400;">**Objective:** In this session, participants will learn to examine the different facets of privacy in the digital age and the regulations designed to protect these rights. They will investigate the impact of emerging technologies on privacy by considering the various forms of surveillance currently deployed in society alongside the enabling legal frameworks. This session will further focus on the rise of surveillance-related policies and their implications for the protection and promotion of digital rights.</span>

**Session plan:**


The session will aim to cover questions such as:

- <span style="font-weight: 400;">What is privacy in the digital age and why is it important?</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the ways in which the internet and other digital technologies are being used to infringe privacy and engage in surveillance?</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the legal and regulatory frameworks in Southeast Asia that protect privacy, including data protection laws? What are the challenges and gaps?</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the ways in which legal frameworks in Southeast Asia are being used to enable surveillance?</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">What is the impact of such policies on freedom of expression, assembly and association and other rights, especially for marginalised groups?</span>

*\*Reading materials are hyperlinked, please click the text to access*

#### **Reading Materials**<span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span>

- [The misuse of Personal data protection laws across the Asia-Pacific](https://www.apc.org/en/news/personal-data-protection-laws-across-asia-pacific-are-now-regularly-misused-aid-tyranny#:~:text=At%20the%20APrIGF%20session%2C%20Deborah,the%20interests%20it%20ultimately%20serves.&text=Shalom%20Gauri%20(she/her),fiction%20and%20anti%2Dcapitalist%20imagination.)
- [Data Privacy and Data Protection – South and South East Asia](https://www.mediadefence.org/resource-hub/data-privacy-protection-south-southeast-asia/?tztc=1)
- [A critique of consent in Information Privacy](https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/a-critique-of-consent-in-information-privacy)
- [A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online](https://www.amacad.org/publication/contextual-approach-privacy-online)

#### 📌 [**Presentation Slide**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KQQ8TJejSeI1vpQhQq6GOLajPcz0XiOs/view?usp=drive_link)