Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor wants to leave Myanmar. Activists say its exit risks putting their data— and their freedom—at risk.
. But Telenor’s reply, seen by WIRED, said the GDPR “does not in general apply to Telenor Myanmar,” frustrating Kyaw. “We are paying them, just like the people in the EU are paying but the treatment is very different,” he says. “The worry is that if the regime gets control of this data, they will be able to root out the networks,” says Joseph Wilde-Ramsing, senior researcher at SOMO, a Dutch group that investigates the ethics of multinationals and is helping Kyaw with his case.
“We understand Telenor wants to leave,” says Ketil Sellæg Ramberg, a partner at SANDS law firm in Oslo who is working on the case. “Our concern is they are leaving the country without safeguarding the data of the 18 to 19 million customers.” Ramberg says the complaint is an attempt to inspire the Norwegian data authority to intervene and to prove the Norwegian-headquartered group has control over the data processing in Myanmar—a claim Telenor denies.
At the heart of the GDPR complaint is activists’ suspicions that the company Telenor has chosen as its successor in Myanmar, M1, may eventually succumb to military pressure to collaborate. “Even though we believe Telenor has fallen short, at least they try to sometimes push back or insist on due process,” says Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia policy director at digital rights group Access Now.
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