Indonesia's Gojek Will Be "The Next Amazon"?

Along with its growth, Gojek is expanding their business by buying the stock of BlueBird, acquiring Promogo (an advertisement company), creating logistics company (PT. Jaya Ekspress Transindo/JX), investing in Halodoc (medical apps), and a lot more activities to seize the opportunity (read: market).         

Data Protection Laws in Indonesia 

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Mark Zuckerberg has a vision to make the world more connected. Too bad your connection with your crush doesn't have commercial value. This makes Facebook from social media apps turned into profiling their users so that the relevant ads can go in.   

Not only that, the Facebook user information can be traded to the third party apps. From the big data scandal of Cambridge Analytica, Mark had to explain and testify before the senate in April 2018. This signaled the importance of data protection law in online platform.

Europe already has data protection law called GDPR (The General Data Protection Regulation). The citizen of EU will be guaranteed that their data won't be used without their consent. The company violating this rule will have potential fine up to 4% of their annual turnover. Pretty damn huge, right. 

The Regulation of The Minister of Communication and Informatics Number 20 Year of 2016 has initiated the good will of the government in data protection. However, data protection needs higher level of regulation.   

In the 2nd week of November 2020, The House of Commission is planned to conclude the bill of Data Protection whose draft had been assessed by the ministry since 2014. Several principles are adopted from the GDPR on a number of key areas: data collection, data processing, data security, data breach, and the individual right to have their personal data erased.       

Be A Smart User   

Pandemic period becomes more and more digitized. All schools from elementary to post-doctoral schools serve as increasingly digital than ever. All seminars, talks, business meeting happen in online platform.   

The data taken in that platform is very large and the the same time valuable. Do we know if Zoom is storing the visual and audio data during webinar? Do they have our consent to do that? Or are we conscious when giving the consent to them to do so?