| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||
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| Ms. Jhalak Kakkar | |||||||||||
| Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) * | |||||||||||
| Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi | |||||||||||
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| Executive Director | |||||||||||
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| Female | |||||||||||
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| India | |||||||||||
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| List Your Organizing Partners (if any) | |||||||||||
| Name: Risa Arai Designation and affiliation: Programme Specialist (Legal Identity), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Email: risa.arai@undp.org |
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| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||
| Session Title | |||||||||||
| Legal Identity Systems and Privacy: Ensuring Inclusion and Data Protection | |||||||||||
| Session Format | |||||||||||
| Panel Discussion | |||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||
| Online only (with onsite facilitator who will help with questions or comments from the floor) | |||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||
| Governments are increasingly deploying digital legal identity systems for reasons such as public service delivery and monitoring implementation. Individuals can use these systems to prove their identity to government agencies and private players to obtain various services. While digital forms of legal ID systems have certain benefits, they raise questions around privacy, surveillance, discrimination, and exclusion, especially in the Global South. Over the past year, the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG) has been working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on a report that aims to highlight best practices on framing data protection legislation. In the report, we examine regional data protection frameworks to inform how data protection legislation should be framed in the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development target of providing legal identity for all. The report examines various aspects of data protection like data protection principles and data subject rights in the context of various digital ID schemes. In this session, we plan to draw on insights gained from working on the report to discuss issues at the intersection of legal ID systems and privacy. Some of the main questions we will explore include: How to preserve privacy when using legal ID systems? What are the most important privacy principles in this context? What are the key issues/ concerns participants have with state-based digital legal ID systems, especially in the Global South? What are best practices for data protection frameworks that countries could focus on? What are the challenges with implementing data protection laws, especially in developing countries? |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||
| This session aims to engage with the role of robust data protection frameworks in fostering trust in the context of legal identity, which is crucial to ensure inclusion and access to a wide range of rights and services. One of the targets of the UN’s sustainable development goals is to provide legal identity for all by 2030. This is essential to enable each individual to be recognised as a person before the law, and to ensure access to justice and basic human rights. Furthermore, legal identity systems can help improve public policy formulation, their implementation, the monitoring of outcomes and the better delivery of services. While inclusive legal identity systems help tackle systemic discrimination and exclusion, the shift to the use of digital legal ID systems by states and the collection of personal data for legal ID goals can also lead to privacy risks. A comprehensive data protection framework is therefore an essential component of fostering trust in governance, and ensuring that all stakeholders benefit from legal ID systems. The main goal of the session is to foster discussion on issues at the intersection of digital ID systems and privacy, and evaluate best practices in the framing of data protection legislation to effectively address these challenges. Drawing on the experience of speakers and insights from the report, we will identify key privacy principles that are relevant in the context of deploying legal digital IDs. We will discuss issues such as the breadth of exemptions provided to States in data protection legislation, the lack of focus on children’s data, and ways to operationalise data protection principles. We will then have an interactive conversation where we hope to understand the main privacy concerns participants have in the context of state-based digital identity systems, and discuss ways to address them. Insights from the session will inform ongoing and future work for CCG and UNDP. |
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||
| Jhalak and Shashank focus on data protection as a core part of their research at CCG. They also conceptualised and have worked on a report focusing on legal ID and data protection, which was undertaken in collaboration with UNDP. Aishwarya’s work has focused on data protection, particularly on the rights of data subjects and the structure of data protection regulators. Risa has worked at UNDP on the UN Legal Identity Agenda, which aims at developing comprehensive birth to death legal identity systems in Member States. Akriti works on issues relating to platform governance, privacy, and digital rights in India, and has conducted extensive research on legal ID systems across countries like India, Kenya, and Estonia. Joylon’s research is focused on regulatory theory, particularly on the private sector’s responsibilities in emerging human rights frameworks. |
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| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||
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| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||
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| APrIGF offers live transcript in English for all sessions. Do you need any other translation support or any disability related requests for your session? APrIGF makes every effort to be a fully inclusive and accessible event, and will do the best to fulfill your needs. | |||||||||||
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