Indonesia

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Smart Cities: Utopian Vision, Dystopian Reality

The smart city market is booming. National and local governments all over the world expect their cities to become more efficient, more sustainable, cleaner and safer by integrating technology, increasing data generation and centralising data to provide better services. From large multinationals to

News

24th May 2019

ICE is Paying Millions to Surveillance Company to Spy on People’s Communications

2nd February 2015

Will New Government In Indonesia Bring About Surveillance Reforms?

25th July 2014

Elaman and Gamma: what's selling and who's buying in Indonesia?

10th June 2014

Watching The Polls: How Spying Imperils Elections

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Indonesian immunity passport could double as identity card

In June, a health law researcher at the University of Indonesia suggested that the government could create its own version of the international vaccination certificate issued by the WHO for those who were vaccinated against the coronavirus, when a vaccine becomes available. Comparing it to

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Submission on Indonesia's Draft Law on the Protection of Personal Data, 2018

Since 2014 the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics (MOCI) has been proposing that the Parliament passes a comprehensive data protection law. A first draft data protection law was issued by the Government for public comment in 2015 but no progress was made, and then in early 2018