Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.
Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.
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Over 100 countries now have data protection laws and regulations, and more are being drafted, particularly in emerging economies that wish to maintain data flows with the European Union. These laws, directives, and regulations have the potential to significantly curtail the analytic activities of the news media and bloggers, and in particular, smaller news outlets who lack the strong legal muscle of corporate conglomerates. This session will explore the impact of data protection laws and regulations on the media, and why, if you care about values such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression, you should care.
I have a BA in Law and work as a Policy and Advocacy analyst at Coding Rights, with a special focus on Data Protection, Human Rights in the Digital Age and Internet Governance. Additionally, I also hold the position of Chair of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) at ICAN... Read More →
