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IGF 2021 WS #282
Rights to be forgotten in the perspective of feminism

    Organizer 1: Mi Ru Lee, Korean Progressive Network JINBONET

    Speaker 1: Lorena Jaume-Palasi, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
    Speaker 2: Datta Bishakha, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
    Speaker 3: Anja Kovacs, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
    Speaker 4: vale hvale, Civil Society, Eastern European Group
    Speaker 5: KS Park, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group

    Moderator

    Mi Ru Lee, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group

    Online Moderator

    Mi Ru Lee, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group

    Rapporteur

    Mi Ru Lee, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group

    Format

    Panel - Auditorium - 90 Min

    Policy Question(s)

    Digital policy and human rights frameworks: What is the relationship between digital policy and development and the established international frameworks for civil and political rights as set out in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and further interpretation of these in the online context provided by various resolutions of the Human Rights Council? How do policy makers and other stakeholders effectively connect these global instruments and interpretations to national contexts? What is the role of different local, national, regional and international stakeholders in achieving digital inclusion that meets the requirements of users in all communities?

    Formulating Right to be forgotten by a feminist perspective as a new right in cyber space. Looking through RtbF with existing right and whether there is any conflict between them or not. Figuring legislative limitation from the pont of legal and ethical view and discussing alternative solutions for expected problems.

    SDGs

    1.5


    Targets: Right to be Forgotten is considered new way to protect women and minority group in cyberspace. Especially, related their sexual orientation, RtbF is important tool and right.

    Description:

    The Right to be Forgotten (hereinafter, RtbF) is a right that focuses on the fact that when
    people around you know about the past that you don’t want to be remembered by, you will shrink
    yourself and it becomes difficult to live a normal life. It is also a norm that restricts circulation of
    information that reminds the undesired memory so that it can be free from such chilling effects.
    Given such legislative purposes, RtbF is applied even to information which does not belong to
    ordinary sense of privacy and is not false, and thus there is a possibility of conflict with freedom
    of expression. On the other hand, the desire for RthF is increasing due to the nature of internet
    space, where vast amounts of information about oneself are accumulated but not easy to delete.
    Much sensitive private information can be controlled through the existing privacy/secrecy
    regulation without having to involve RtbF, as in case of unauthorized videos containing sexual
    conduct or sexual assault. However, from the perspective of minority groups, information about
    oneself can be used as tools for discrimination or violence, even if it is not information that has
    been kept secret or is false. For example, in general, if the scenes of a female actor’s sexual
    activity appearing in adult films overflow on the internet, the actor will be mentally intimidated. In
    order to solve such problems, I would like to discuss RtbF from a feminist perspective taking
    women as a representative minority group.

    Expected Outcomes

    1. Discussing Right to be Forgotten
    2. Ensuring new right in cyber space in digital era
    3. Figuring conflict points of new right

    We will discussing through online. Thanks for that, we can meet from all over the world. Especially, it is not familiar subject for Korean. So, it should be the one, which can encourage participation in Korean people.

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