Privacy in instant Messaging Apps

L-R: Clair Deevy, WhatsApp’s Director for Public Policy for Asia Pacific, Indika De Zoysa, Enterprise Business Group at Huawei Technologies Lanka Co-Vice President, and Ashwini Natesan Veerabahu, Legal Consultant/Researcher/Lecturer on Information Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law.

Considering the current dialogue on privacy in digital applications that stemmed with the latest privacy update notice on WhatsApp, Sri Lanka Press Institute as a precursor in making the citizens more informed on the democratic ideals, has organized an online panel discussion titled “Is Your Privacy at Stake? – An Online Panel Discussion on Privacy in Instant Messaging Applications” on Thursday, 18th of February 2021 from 6.30 pm -7.30 pm on zoom platform. The panel discussion will be held in English and the Q & A session will be facilitated in Sinhala and Tamil interpretations.

The expert panel of the online session consists of Ms Clair Deevy, WhatsApp’s Director for Public Policy for Asia Pacific, Mr. Indika De Zoysa, Enterprise Business Group at Huawei Technologies Lanka Co-Vice President, and Ms Ashwini Natesan Veerabahu, Legal Consultant/Researcher/Lecturer on Information Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law.

Interested participants may visit the website at www.slpi.lk to register for the session or get in touch with us on Tel: +94-11-5353635, Email: info@slpi.lk or Fax: +94-11-5335500 or follow our social media pages at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SriLankaPressInstitute and/or Twitter handle, @SLPI.