07/06/2021
A summarised version of an article Joel Basoga co-authored with Paul Epodoi covering why businesses, organisations and individuals need to pay attention to privacy regulations was published in the The Daily Monitor Newspaper (see link below). It specifically addresses the challenges that computing technologies present especially how they facilitate the capacity to gather, collect and manipulate massive quantities of information. They also dealt with the misconception around privacy, especially the idea that privacy is only for those who have something to hide. In so doing, they state out a wider conception of privacy while borrowing from different scholarly and practical perspectives.
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/pay-attention-to-your-privacy-3425492
Privacy is important because it safeguards one’s autonomy and dignity