This panel will discuss the burgeoning e-commerce businesses and the social media boom in the Asia Pacific region.

• Are these business models here to stay?
• Is social media invading people’s privacy?
• Is the right to be forgotten relevant in the Asian context?
• Are brick and mortar companies under threat and can regulatory barriers against digital economy companies be successfully enforced?
• Is the law able to play catch up with new and evolving modes of digital business such as the shared economy businesses, aggregators/marketplaces, driverless cars, drones, etc? 

The session will also deal with complicated issues of allocation of liability and jurisdictional challenges in enforcement.