=&0=&The Sociology Students Association (KMS) of Fisipol UGM held a KMS External Discussion titled “Clothing, food, housing, smartphone” on Saturday (5/2). The event that was held through Zoom Meeting invited speakers from Studio Malya which are Nandhika Lupitasari and Fatah Yusi, as well as an UGM Sociology lecturer, Derajad S. Widhyarto.Analyzing the installation art piece by Studio Malaya titled “I Peek, You Peek”, the creator said that the installation is an image of the loss of private data through surveillance in our day to day life. The process of “peeking” both in the digital realm and reality is the most common form of privacy violation that we often disregard and accept. Surveillance is often done remotely between the physical and digital world. The most simple example of this instance is the peeking of our phone’s lock screen.
In the Private Data Protection Bill, an opportunity of privacy violence can be highlighted in which citizen’s data can be taken for the purpose of the state’s data collection. However, there is not one part in the bill which mentions the parties who will be authorized to take the data. This is a dangerous loophole because the ambiguous third party can weaken law enforcement and surveillance.
“Take for example the instance when we are being recorded but the party who does this isn’t responsible which, in many events we’ve seen recently, leads to data leakage. Data collection is important for the state, however from the law perspective, we still don’t feel safe about this,” Fatah Yusi said.
