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Joseph Wild Ramsling
Advocacy Director at SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations), leading corporate accountability campaigns including the Telenor Myanmar data-sharing class action.
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Sep 22, 2026
When Your Data Becomes a Weapon: Myanmar and Customer Privacy
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5:21Joseph Wild RamslingGUEST
So I think for this story, it's important to start a few years back, even back over a decade to 2014, which is when there was a semblance at least of democratic opening in Myanmar.
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5:38Joseph Wild RamslingGUEST
There were elections and obviously Aung San Suu Kyi was coming to power.
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5:43Joseph Wild RamslingGUEST
But obviously, those of you who know or those of the audience that knows Myanmar will know that it was a very precarious time.
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democracy and that the military remained, maintained a large degree of power at that time.
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5:57Joseph Wild RamslingGUEST
So in this context, a lot of international business started, saw a business opportunity and a chance to come into Myanmar.
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6:06Joseph Wild RamslingGUEST
And so Telenor is a telecoms, a Norwegian majority state owned telecoms company providing connectivity and With the encouragement, in fact, then, too, of the Norwegian government, Telenor sort of rushed into Myanmar, and this was in sort of the second half of 2014, I believe, and came into the country as, won a license as sort of the only independent mobile phone provider, connectivity provider.
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