By Wendy Yang -
What is privacy and who is responsible for safeguarding it? Is it an individual’s responsibility? Is it the law firm’s? Or is it the responsibility of society as a whole?
Two teams of privacy experts will go head-to-head at the Law Society on Thursday 6 November to talk about the hot topics in privacy law, including data breach-related litigation and enforcement, law reform, the role of courts, regulators and businesses, new legal actions such as statutory tort of serious interference with privacy, and misuse of confidential information including biometrics, surveillance and more.
Dalvin Chien is a partner at Mills Oakley, where he heads the Information and Communications Technology and digital law group. Chien has been in the technology, privacy and cybersecurity space for over two decades. He believes that privacy is important for all practitioners. “Privacy or more broadly data has a symbiotic relationship with technology. … [I]t forms such a fundamental part of our lives and is multi-generational.
“Privacy/Data regulation and governance is arguably the one factor that could systemise and bring a universal standard to our approach to the evolving benefits (and dangers) of technology such as AI,” he says.
Chien encourages practitioners to attend the event as each of the debaters, who are experienced privacy lawyers or experts, have a “surprisingly different relationship” with privacy and data security law.
The debate will be held at the Law Society of NSW with networking to follow. To register, click here.
