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URL:https://www.hiig.de/en/events/lunch-talk-privacy-in-asia-the-changing-
 regulatory-landscape/
SUMMARY:Privacy in Asia – Lunch talk with Abu Bakar Munir
DESCRIPTION:Privacy in Asia: The Changing Regulatory Landscape\nLunch talk 
 with Abu Bakar Munir\nMonday\, 7 September 2015 | HIIG Berlin | 6th floor
 \n\nWith the exception of jurisdictions such as Hong Kong\, Japan and Kore
 a\, privacy protection is now the new game changer to many countries in As
 ia. It took thirty years after the adoption of the first international ins
 trument on personal data protection by the OECD\, for these countries to h
 ave laws on this. Many nations in this region have started enacting new la
 ws or amending the existing ones. The Taiwanese Parliament passed a compre
 hensive law called the Personal Data Protection Act in 2010. Korea followe
 d suit and enacted a new Personal Information Protection Act a year later.
  Malaysia is the first among the members of the Association of Southeast A
 sian Nations (‘ASEAN’) in having it in May 2010 and followed by Singap
 ore and the Philippines. After a number of attempts\, in January this year
 \, the Thai’s government reintroduced a bill on data protection. Very in
 terestingly\, after so many years in existence\, in March this year\, the 
 Japanese Diet has just started to debate a bill to amend the existing law 
 of that country in with some very significant changes. Unfortunately\, the
 re are still a number of countries that do not seem to do anything\, despi
 te the ASEAN Economic Community is supposed to be in existence by the end 
 of this year\, which obviously requires the personal data protection law t
 o be in place.\n\nThis talk seeks to provide a comparative analysis of the
  privacy and data protection legislation of a number of selected Asian cou
 ntries such as Malaysia\, Singapore\, Korea\, Taiwan and the Philippines. 
 This session will ascertain and deliberate on some of the main similaritie
 s and differences in the regulation and the impact on the cross-border dat
 a transfer within and beyond Asia.\nSpeaker\nAbu Bakar Munir is an interna
 tionally renowned scholar\, expert and consultant on ICT Law and Data Prot
 ection Law. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law\, University of Malaya\,
  Malaysia. Currently\, he is a Professor of law at the Faculty and Associa
 te Fellow at the University of Malaya Malaysian Centre for Regulatory Stud
 ies (UMCoRS). He is also a Visiting Professor at several universities in A
 sia\, Australia\, New Zealand\, the Middle East and Europe. He is the Lega
 l Advisor and Data Protection Consultant in the Straits Interactive Pte Lt
 d Singapore.\n\nProfessor Abu Bakar is the author of several books\; Priva
 tization (1992)\, Cyberlaw: Policies and Challenges (1999)\, Privacy and D
 ata Protection (2002)\, Internet Banking: Law and Practice (2004)\, and In
 formation and Communication Technology Law: State\, Internet and Informati
 on (2010). His work\; Personal Data Protection in Malaysia: Law and Practi
 ce (2010) is the must-read book that provides a guidance as to how to comp
 ly with the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2010. His most r
 ecent book\, Data Protection Law in Asia by Thomson Reuters (Hong Kong) wa
 s published in December 2014. He has widely published numerous articles on
  several aspects of ICT law and data protection law. He was appointed the 
 Adviser to the Government of Malaysia on data protection in 2007 and was i
 nstrumental in the crafting and passing of the PDPA 2010. Currently\, he i
 s the data protection consultant to the governments of Indonesia and Saudi
  Arabia. See full CV\n\nThe lunch talk is open to the public\, please regi
 ster via the form below.
CATEGORIES:Exploring Digital Spheres
LOCATION:HIIG at Hausvogteiplatz\, Oberwallstrasse 9\, Berlin\, 10117\, Ger
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