Shmyla Khan (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Shmyla is based in Pakistan and is the research and policy director at Digital Rights Foundation. She has previously worked as a lecturer teaching law, technology, and gender.
What can be done?
We need to fundamentally reframe how we control the internet’s infrastructure and how it is regulated by governments and private companies. Colonization and commercialization of private data need to stop, and strong legislation avoiding monopoly and ensuring transparency from social media platforms has to be put in place.
Shmyla Khan
Asia