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‘Data more valuable than oil’: Jokowi asserts need to guard privacy

It seems that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, or at least one of his speech-writers, has watched Netflix's documentary The Great Hack, as the President has asserted the importance of personal data protection in his State of the Nation address.

Kharishar Kahfi (The Jakarta Post)
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Sat, August 17, 2019

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treaming video platform Netflix launched in late July “The Great Hack”, a documentary on the dire state of privacy in the United States and Europe, where people spend much of their time online and volunteer countless nuggets of exploitable information.

The two-hour movie’s conclusion is terrifying: Big business and politics have been mass-mining users’ everyday data, ranging from Facebook “likes” to online subscriptions, for profit and power.

It ends by calling personal data “the world’s most valuable asset [...] surpassing oil.”

Fast-forward three weeks and it appears that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, or at least his speech-writers, have watched the documentary, as the President asserts the importance of personal data protection in his State of the Nation address before members of all branches of government -- the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.

The annual speech came on the eve of Indonesia’s Independence Day, which falls on a Saturday this year.

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