Data Privacy Day 2021: Asia Pacific Region event
40th Anniversary of data protection Convention 108
The Data Privacy Day 2021 event is to be held online on 28 January 2021 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of data protection Convention 108 with its Asia-Pacific privacy stakeholders.
Asia-Pacific governments, privacy regulators, and civil society will touch upon the advantages of the Convention for Asia-Pacific countries, as well as what the suggested path would entail for a particular country. The evolution of Convention 108 into the ‘modernised’ Convention 108+ adds a new dimension.
Speaker will share about the jurisdictional updates and discuss the following questions:
What advantages (or disadvantages) would involvement in the Convention bring?
Is accession to the Convention necessary for involvement?
What does the Convention mean in a post Schrems II era for relationships between the EU (and the GDPR) and Asia-Pacific countries?
How could Convention 108 contribute to relationships between Asia-Pacific countries?
Opening remarks

Sophie Kwasny (Council of Europe)

Moderator

Graham Greenleaf (Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales)

Speakers:

John Edwards (New Zealand Privacy Commissioner)


Angelene Falk (Australia Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner)


Raymund Liboro (Philippines Privacy Commissioner)

Zee Kin Yeong (Deputy Chair, Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission)
Discussants

Anne Cheung (Professor, Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong)


Kyung-sin Park (Executive Director, Open Net Korea)


Yuriko Haga (Associate professor, Faculty of Law, Kanazawa University)


Q&A session moderated by Hiroshi Miyashita (Associate Professor of Law, Chuo University)

Questions:
- To submit questions in advance, please contact us by email at data.protection[at]coe.int
- Questions will be accepted live during the event via the online platform Q&A feature.