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The Economic Cost of Privacy in Global Governance : The normative study of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) response to the mass data collection.

A normative study of a regional organisation exercising governance using Global governance as a guiding theory. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is one of the biggest regional organisations, often compared to the European Union (EU) in terms of efficacy and non-legal binding approach, as well as the non-conformity of western liberal ideology. This thesis conducts a case study of ASEAN through the lens of interpretivist ontology and epistemology using critical discourse analysis while considering the deviation of the regional history, experience, and identity. The inevitable fully leaning reliance on technology that runs the societal and political infrastructure today has resulted in many states and regions to develop their Privacy law or internet governance. The thesis analyses frameworks, publications, and dialogues among ASEAN Member states as well as their dialogue partners. The texts are placed within the discursive practices that ASEAN functions as a collective entity in international relations in which governance no longer requires an official body of government. ASEAN’s long record of cooperation has always been motivated by economic prosperity. There is a notable growing concerns of privacy which is in need of data protection, ASEAN has displayed the realisation as well as a potential and gradual shift into a mindset where digital footprint can transcend from a nascent norm into what other community might take for granted as a universal right to the general public and the basic obligation of the government.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-68825
Date January 2024
CreatorsNilsson Punthapong, Sheena
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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