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8th Asian Privacy Scholars Network Conference at NUS Law
NUS Law hosted about 100 participants at the 8th Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) Conference at its Bukit Timah Campus on 5 and 6 December 2019, convened by Professor David Tan (Vice Dean (Academic Affairs), NUS Law). The conference was jointly presented by the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business and the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) – both research centres at NUS Law.
TRAIL was also launched by by Mr Edwin Tong SC ’94, Senior Minister of State for Law and Health, on the first day of the conference.
The theme “Privacy, Confidence & Data Protection in the 21st Century” attracted 40 papers presented by scholars and practitioners from 17 jurisdictions. The kaleidoscope of papers covered a broad range of topics that included interrogation of conceptual frameworks, practical analyses of personal data protection legislation such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national regulatory regimes, health data management, privacy issues at the Tokyo Olympics, privacy and the Hong Kong protests, and the surveillance economy.
Professor Megan Richardson from Melbourne Law School, who delivered the first keynote address on Day 1, advanced an account of five disruptive moments in the development of the common law, and the inherent disunity in the judicial conceptions of privacy over the decades. Mr Yeong Zee Kin ’97, who delivered the second keynote address on Day 2, is the Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation and Protection Group) of the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) and Deputy Commissioner of the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC). He shared how the “regulatory sandbox” had assisted the government in its policy formulations, and mooted the Model AI Governance Framework and the Trusted Data Sharing Framework.
The Singapore Journal of Legal Studies will publish a special symposium issue of selected papers in 2020.
More information about the APSN may be found here: http://asianprivacy.org
More information about the 8th APSN Conference may be found here:
https://law.nus.edu.sg/events/apsn2019/index.html