#StopDigitalDictatorship: How Governments in SEA are Violating Our Privacy Online?
#StopDigitalDictatorshipđ±đ How Governments in SEA are Violating Our Privacy Online?
đ» Without respect for privacy in online spaces, many may feel unsafe to honestly express their thoughts, feelings, or beliefs, and freedom of speech could end up being in peril.
đ Around the Southeast Asia region, laws regarding data protection and privacy, online information, or cybersecurity currently come with many loopholes that allow governments to gain insights about its critics and ultimately weaponize the data to silence them.
đ Unfortunately, governments are not alone in this attack on digital privacy as big tech and social media giants are also complicit. They routinely hand private data to governments, failing to protect usersâ privacy and therefore violating basic human rights.
âĄïž Swipe to learn about various ways in which governments in Southeast Asia are infringing on our privacy rights and what needs to be done to #StopDigitalDictatorship once and for all.
#WeAreManushyan ⟠Equal Human Beings
â Manushya Foundation demands that governments stop exploiting digital tools to surveil citizens and that tech companies provide transparency and put human rights above all else. To preserve free speech and strengthen privacy in the digital space, international human rights standards must be respected!
đ In collaboration with the ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship, we sent a joint submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the report on the right to privacy in the digital age đ https://www.manushyafoundation.org/joint-submission-on-the-right-to-privacy-in-the-digital-age
#DigitalRights #UNGPs #HumanRightsDueDiligence #Privacy #DataPrivacy #OnlinePrivacy #PrivacyMatters #Censorship #BusinessResponsibility #TechCompany #WhatsHappeningInThailand #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar
Sources:
Thailand
Southeast Asia Globe, Phones require face scans in Thailandâs Muslim Deep South
New Mandala: The Patani Panopticon: biometrics in Thailandâs deep south
Facebook Transparency, Government Requests for User Data
Indonesia and The Philippines
Tempo.co, State Uses Virtual Police for Mass Surveillance, SAFEnet Says
PhilStar: US trains Philippine soldiers on social media monitoring
Inquirer, Israeli surveillance firm to build PH cybersecurity platform
Cambodia
The Cambodia Daily: Cambodia expands monitoring of âfake newsâ
The Diplomat: Whatâs in Cambodiaâs New Internet Gateway Decree?
Myanmar
MIT Technology Review, The spyware used by Arab dictators has now shown up in Myanmar
Myanmar Now, Telenor has shared sensitive customer data with military since the coup: industry sources
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