Publication of Asian Privacy Scholars Network Conference Special Issue

TRAIL is pleased to announce the publication of a special Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) Conference issue of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (SJLS). The 8^th APSN Conference was held at NUS Law in December 2019, featuring 40 papers submitted by 40 scholars and practitioners from 17 jurisdictions around the world, based on the theme of “Privacy, Confidence & Data Protection in the 21^st Century”, and more specifically on topics such as the philosophical and theoretical justifications for personal privacy, the conflation of privacy, data protection, and the law of confidence in equity, as well as the impact of technology on the equitable action for breach of confidence.

Five of these papers have been curated for publication in the APSN Conference issue of the SJLS, dealing with the historical disruptions of a unified international conception of privacy, a comparative study of enforcement mechanisms in data privacy laws, the encroachment of competition law into data protection law due to the commodification of personal data, a comparative analysis of privacy legislation in Southeast Asia and Oceania, and a comparative analysis of national electronic health record regulations. The Introduction to the APSN Conference issue of the SJLS, written by Prof David Tan, can be read here.