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Accounting for Women's Different Experiences with Privacy Online
By Emily Sharpe, Director of Policy, The Web Foundation
Posted on 14 October 2021
There is no “universal” experience of the web. We must recognize that individuals’ gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, and other intersecting and overlapping identities impact how they perceive, interact with, and are served by data, products, and policies. The global tech community must adopt a more intersectional approach to developing policies and products that account for the full diversity of those who use digital tools, especially from a privacy and data protection perspective. As a starting point, companies, governments and researchers should collect gender-disaggregated data around women’s and men’s perceptions of privacy and use of data-driven services.
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Privacy Culture and Cross-Border Data Transfers
By Stephen Wong, Barrister-At-Law & Former Privacy Commissioner, Hong Kong
Posted on 11 October 2021
“Those who assert the universality of human rights in the philosophical or an anthropological sense, focus on [sic] universal roots, however limited in number imprecisely expressed they may be. On the other hand, those who look for the human rights concept itself in all cultures inevitably conclude that the universality of human rights in this sense is a myth.” (“Human Rights: Universality and Diversity”, Eva Brems, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001, p.9)
In reality, there are different conceptions and regulations on human rights, including privacy, in different local jurisdictions, depending on their political structures, legal systems, histories, cultures and economic developments, etc. This is particularly true in terms of the applicability of the universality of human rights in jurisdictions which are not “western”.
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By Emily Sharpe, Director of Policy, The Web Foundation
Posted on 14 October 2021
There is no “universal” experience of the web. We must recognize that individuals’ gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, and other intersecting and overlapping identities impact how they perceive, interact with, and are served by data, products, and policies. The global tech community must adopt a more intersectional approach to developing policies and products that account for the full diversity of those who use digital tools, especially from a privacy and data protection perspective. As a starting point, companies, governments and researchers should collect gender-disaggregated data around women’s and men’s perceptions of privacy and use of data-driven services.
Continue Reading
Privacy Culture and Cross-Border Data Transfers
By Stephen Wong, Barrister-At-Law & Former Privacy Commissioner, Hong Kong
Posted on 11 October 2021
“Those who assert the universality of human rights in the philosophical or an anthropological sense, focus on [sic] universal roots, however limited in number imprecisely expressed they may be. On the other hand, those who look for the human rights concept itself in all cultures inevitably conclude that the universality of human rights in this sense is a myth.” (“Human Rights: Universality and Diversity”, Eva Brems, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001, p.9)
In reality, there are different conceptions and regulations on human rights, including privacy, in different local jurisdictions, depending on their political structures, legal systems, histories, cultures and economic developments, etc. This is particularly true in terms of the applicability of the universality of human rights in jurisdictions which are not “western”.
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