Joyce Ng (BitOwl)
Joyce is an engineer and hacker who is concerned about Big Tech, data security and cyberwarfare. She works on making tech open source and accessible to people. She believes in informing people about technology, so that hackers and the public alike can reclaim control over their technology.
Session
In 2014, the Singaporean Government launched its Smart Nation initiative, a tech policy framework aiming 'to harness infocomm technologies, networks and big data to create tech-enabled solutions', which was recently refreshed as 'Smart Nation 2.0' - with sub-initiatives like the Open Digital Platform and Singpass Face Verification as practical implementations of the Smart Nation vision.
With the massive scale of data collection under Smart Nation 2.0, are there any guarantees of data privacy? Could these initiatives be used for the purpose of mass surveillance on the public by any administration, future or current? This talk seeks to analyze these implementations of the Smart Nation initiative as a case study for the social, political and privacy implications of the Smart Nation initiative as a whole. What does the concept of a "smart nation" or "smart city" mean for us as hackers?