Personal Data: To Legislate or Not to Legislate by Professor Abu Bakar Munir

SYNOPSIS
Privacy concerns have been on the rise with the advent of digital technologies that afford the mixing and mashing of data. In this talk, Professor Abu Bakar Munir, one of the foremost privacy law experts in the world, will talk about privacy concerns globally and discuss in particular the Malaysian case, where he helped draft the privacy law that is before the Malaysian Parliament.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Munir was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya. His research interests are Air and Space Law, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Law and Nanotechnology Law and Policy. He is also a Visiting Professor at several universities in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Europe. He has been the Adviser to the Government of Malaysia on data protection and has also consulted with the governments of Indonesia and Dubai on privacy.