Danish Data Protection with Respect to Law Libraries

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Blume
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
The Individual

Data protection and information privacy are essential parts of lex informatica. The purpose of legal rules is to sustain a modern development and adjustment of the fundamental right to privacy, taking the realities of the information society into consideration. The aim is to protect the individual against misuse of personal information that may violate the private sphere and simultaneously to protect against surveillance with the purpose of governing behavior. Privacy protection is furthermore important, since personal information, which always has had economic value to a much larger degree, has become a commodity today. There are many reasons sustaining data protection, and legal regulation is very broad covering all parts of society. Merely a fragment of this issue is being considered in the following.

International Transfers of Personal Data

2011 ◽  
pp. 292-315
Author(s):  
Sam De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Data Controller ◽  
International Transfers

Developments in technology and the global nature of business means that personal information about individuals in the UK may often be processed overseas, frequently without the explicit knowledge or consent of those individuals. This raises issues such as the security of such data, who may have access to it and for what purposes and what rights the individual may have to object. The Data Protection Act 1998 provides a standard of protection for personal data, including in respect of personal data that is being transferred outside of the UK. Chapter 18 focus on how a UK data controller (the organisation that controls how and why personal data is processed and is therefore legally responsible for compliance) can fulfil its business and operational requirements in transferring personal data outside the EEA, whilst ensuring legal compliance.

scholarly journals The right of information privacy between the challenges of technology and the reality of legal protection: الحق في الخصوصية المعلوماتية بين تحديات التقنية وواقع الحماية القانونية

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Qara Mustafa Aisha
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Technical Challenges ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to identify the international, regional and even national efforts to protect the rights and privacy of the individual from the impact of informatics, and the extent to which it succeeded in achieving this. To achieve this, the researcher used the analytical method by explaining the new technical challenges to personal data and various legal mechanisms to protect this right. The research was based on an introduction, two papers and a conclusion. The first topic was entitled "What is the privacy of informatics and the dangers it faces in the digital age", while the second topic is devoted to international and regional efforts to protect information privacy. The results of the study showed that most of the legislations, especially the Arab ones, are not able to deal with violations of personal data, and concluded that new legal rules must be enacted to protect information privacy, based on established international principles in the field of informatics.

scholarly journals LEGAL REGULATION OF COMMUNICATION PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 985-1004
Author(s):  
Anzhelika N. Izotova
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Dialectical Analysis ◽  
Communication Privacy

The article is devoted to the regulation of communication privacy, which is not only a guarantee of the individual right to confidentiality and privacy, but also a necessary condition for the collective freedom of speech, trust in communication services, which is essential for formation of the information society. The right to communication privacy with the advent of new communication technologies is being transformed and expanded, which requires updating and harmonization of the legal framework. In this regard, the purpose of the research is to reveal problems and contradictions in updating legal regulation of communication privacy, including by analyzing legislation and existent scientific approaches to the content of communication privacy, description of mechanisms for both ensuring and limiting communication privacy, as well as interaction of legal entities regarding communication privacy. The relationship between Russian and European legislation, which regulate communication privacy (ePrivacy) have been considered in this paper. The research methodology is represented by such methods as dialectical, analysis, analogies, formal-legal, comparative methods of research activity. The work demonstrates different approaches to determining the content of the right to communication privacy, expanding the range of professional subjects of communication privacy, and loosening the mechanisms for limiting this right in the direction of its expansion in the context of interrelations between subjects of legal relations concerning communication privacy.

Information privacy: protecting freedom and individual autonomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Lesya Chesnokova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The article examines the individual’s right to information privacy as an opportunity to have a non-public area of life. It is argued that a person, being a vulnerable creature, feels the need for secrecy, closeness and opacity of his or her personality. The right to information privacy does not mean complete concealment of private life, but the possibility of regulating access, when individuals can choose whom, when and to what extent to reveal the details of their lives. This presupposes both a person who feels him or herself to be an autonomous person and a society that respects his or her rights and freedoms. There is a duty of restraint and tact, which prohibits violating someone else’s privacy. As one of the aspects of privacy, in addition to the inviolability of the body and home, the human right to information protection is recognized. The theoretical foundation of the right to privacy is the philosophy of liberalism, which protects the individual from unwanted interference from the state and society. The need for private space has evolved in human history along with the growth of individualism. Currently, the right to information privacy is gaining special relevance in connection with the development of digital technologies that allow collecting, storing and processing large amounts of data. As a result, a person, on the one hand, does not know who, when and for what purpose collects his or her data, and, on the other hand, he or she often voluntarily, in connection with the need for social recognition, leaves information about him or herself on social networks. As a result of such actions, the loss of control over personal information can lead to undesirable consequences.

Intellectual Property and Privacy Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Megan Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Privacy Law ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Individual

This chapter explores the intersections between intellectual property (IP) and privacy law. It notes that while the scope of what we may consider to be ‘intellectual property’ continues to expand to cover new creative and innovative practices, so too the meaning and scope of what we may consider to be ‘privacy’—traditionally understood as allowing the individual to enjoy a private sphere free from the public gaze—has come under pressure to expand to address new situations where loss of control over personal information and incursions on personal identity are seen to undermine human dignity and liberty. Thus ‘privacy’ and ‘intellectual property’ become ever more imbricated in our modern digital world, and we can expect to see ever more interchange between the laws that regulate these domains.

LEGAL STANDARDS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Varenia ◽  
◽  
Natalia Sheludiakova ◽  
Igor Ryzhov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Legal Ideology ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
New Generation

The article is devoted to the analysis of the essence of the information society and the definition of the conceptual characteristics of its legal standards. The lack of a coordinated scientific position of the theoretical interpretation of the concept of information society is stated. Scientific positions are grouped into two groups: the first group of scientists positions the information society narrowly, by generalizing it with information as the main resource of social reality. Another group of scientists expand the concept, introducing a number of additional key features. It is concluded that the considered society reflects the tendency of a new round of evolution of the world development of civilized peoples, which is connected with modern information and telecommunication technological progress. It is proved that the legal regulation of relations in the information society is designed to develop basic standards for the functioning of such a society, the creation of appropriate conditions for a person to be in such a society. The search for optimal means and methods of legal regulation can not be simple and one-sided, as it is necessary to take into account the positive and negative trends in society. It is stated that the information society can represent significant benefits for the state and the individual citizen to protect the legal values of democracy, equality, non-discrimination. The characteristics of the manifestation of legal standards of the information society are considered, in particular: transformation of established constitutional institutions and change of their manifestation; modification of the legal ideology of society; conflict of national practice and unification of international standards; expanding the understanding of the concept of "subject of law"; the emergence of a number of new generation rights or the expansion of the elemental composition of an established system of rights.

scholarly journals Information Privacy, Data Surveillance and Security--How Aus-tralian Privacy Law Fully Plays Its Role in the Age of Big Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Jiexin Zang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Privacy Law ◽  
Data Surveillance

Privacy and the protection of privacy is a common topic studied by many scholars. From the very beginning of human culture, people have personal privacy, which is not willing for them to be unveiled by others. With the development of information technology, especially the internet, knowledge and information are dealt by internet users in conscious or unconscious way, and personal information has been rapidly and quickly distributed and disseminated all over the world. Personal data can be collected by hackers or interlinks from the website, internet not only provides people an era with internet links, but also an age with information collections, a big data age. With the background of big data, this essay tries to put forward the correlative relationship between the protection of information privacy and the privacy law in Australia. It first has an overview of the concepts of information privacy and data surveillance under the background of big data, then highlights the importance of data security in the age of big data; with a literature review on the development of Australian privacy acts, it further claims that privacy acts or regulations by the federal or states provided strong support for the protection of personal data. Then relationship between the protection information privacy and the need of judicial guarantee is further studied for thorough methods or regimes in data protection. With these points studied, this essay aims to highlight the importance of data protection and information privacy. On the other hand, it aims to provide awareness for readers the vital role privacy laws can play in the protection of people’s personal information and emphases the importance of a continuous evolution for privacy law system in the age of big data.

Data protection in the United Kingdom: Part 1

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Crook
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Computer Security ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Privacy Problem ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

The United Kingdom Government is about to enact legisla tion for data protection. It is intended that this will safeguard the pnvacy of the individual which is seen to be threatened by the increasing use and capabilities of computerised personal information systems. There are also fears that the British computer and data processing industries will be at a disad vantage when competing in the international market without legislation equivalent to that already operating in other coun tries. The legislation will enable the UK to ratify the Council of Europe Data Protection Convention and to comply with the OECD Guidelines on Transborder Data Flow. Data protection is a valuable example of the interaction of information technology and society. This paper presents an overview of the issues involved. It examines what is meant by data privacy and how that privacy may be infringed by the use of both computerised and manual record systems. The impact of technology on the privacy problem is descnbed, including linkage of computer systems and the contribution of computer security. The need for legislation is discussed, both within the context of the international situation and of the early attempts at domestic legislation.

scholarly journals Privacy & Secrecy: The Right to Control of Personal Information

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesya Chesnokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The article considers the right for privacy and secrecy as an opportunity to have a life sphere hidden from the government, society and other individuals. The study is based on a holistic approach including logical, hermeneutical and comparative methods. The historical process of the origin of publicness triggered the development of legal guarantees, personal freedom, and political involvement. This was accompanied by the occurrence of the sphere of privacy where an actor is protected from state and public interventions. Whereas the public sphere is associated with openness, transparency, total accessibility, the private sphere is connoted with darkness, opacity, and closedness. The need for privacy and secrecy is determined by the human vulnerability. One of the critical components of privacy is the right of an individual for control his personal information. To protect one’s own private sphere, one puts on a social mask when speaking in public. In an intimate relationship, unlike in a public one, he voluntarily waives protection by allowing those closest to him access to personal information. The restricted private sphere is sometimes a source of apprehension and a desire to penetrate other people’s secrets, both from the totalitarian state, which seeks to suppress and unify the individual, and from curious members of society. For the purpose of retaining the social world, a person in the course of socialisation learns to respect other’s privacy, behaving discreetly and tactfully. The right for privacy and secrecy is related with freedom, dignity, and the autonomy of personality.

What Hope for Freedom of Information in the UK?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McDonald
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

This chapter assesses freedom of information (FOI) in the United Kingdom. It discusses the terminology associated with FOI, namely, transparency and openness. FOI refers to access to non-personal information; the regulation of personal information is typically governed by privacy or data-protection laws. Some jurisdictions take an integrated approach to both categories of information, but this chapter focuses on information that does not relate primarily to the individual. The family of information statutes – encompassing FOI, privacy, official secrecy and the like – are known collectively as Access to Information laws. Finally, open government is a term close to openness, since both are concerned with systems and delivery.

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