scholarly journals Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Ethical and Social Responsibility in Democracy in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
José Poças Rascão
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Right

This article reflects on freedom of expression, privacy, ethical and social responsibility, in the context of social networks, in the context of the experience of democracy in cyberspace. It asks questions about ensuring the protection of privacy, freedom, and autonomy of internet users in the internet environment. It identifies national and international legislation that guarantee the right to privacy and the protection of citizens' personal data. It reviews the literature on the concept of ethics and social responsibility, in democracy, in the digital age, associating this domain of knowledge with the concept of privacy, freedom, and ethical and social responsibility, in the context of social networks. The article discusses the concepts that guide this theme and that are directly involved with related domains. It is alert to the need for ethical and legal protection of the digital data of internet users, aiming at the autonomous safeguarding of their digital identities.

Freedom of Expression and the Right to Privacy and Ethics in Dialectic of Human Rights in This Complex and Turbulent Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
José Poças Rascão ◽  
Nuno Gonçalo Poças
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right

The article is about human rights freedom of expression, the right to privacy, and ethics. Technological development (internet and social networks) emphasizes the issue of dialectics and poses many challenges. It makes the theoretical review, the history of human rights through and reference documents, an analysis of the concepts of freedom, privacy, and ethics. The internet and social networks pose many problems: digital data, people's tracks, the surveillance of citizens, the social engineering of power, online social networks, e-commerce, spaces of trust, and conflict.

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 Freedom of expression and protection of personal data on the Internet: The perspective of Internet users in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (47) ◽  
pp. 5-34
Author(s):  
Marta Mitrović
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The paper examines the views of Internet users concerning the protection of their rights on the Internet. The Web survey, conducted by the snowball sampling, included 783 Internet users who expressed their views regarding the ways the state (Serbia) and private agents (Facebook and Google) relate to the right of freedom of expression and privacy on the Internet. Also, the survey was used to examine the individual responsibility of users when it comes to the use of Internet services. Several hypotheses suggested that Internet users in Serbia do not have confidence in the country and private actors on the issue of protecting their rights. However, users also do not demonstrate a satisfactory level of individual responsibility. The most important findings indicate that: 1) only one-sixth of the respondents consider that the Government of the Republic of Serbia does not violate the privacy of Internet users; 2) almost half of the respondents do not feel free to express their views criticizing the government; 3) almost 90% of users are not satisfied how Facebook protects their privacy, while it is 1% lower in the case of Google; 4) a third of respondents answered positively to the question whether they had read terms of use of the analyzed companies, but half of them did not give a correct answer to the main questions; 5) only 8.9% of respondents who claimed to have read terms of use are aware of the fact that Facebook shares their data with third parties.

scholarly journals Economia da intrusão e modulação na internet | The economy of intrusion and modulation on the internet

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Right ◽  
Informational Economy ◽  
Conflictual Relationship

RESUMO O texto trata da economia da interceptação de dados pessoais, também denominada economia da intrusão, componente importante da economia informacional. Mostra a dinâmica da busca pelas atenções e a necessidade crescente da captura de dados pessoais com o objetivo de modular comportamentos e influenciar nas escolhas dos conectados. O texto indica a relação conflituosa entre o direito à privacidade e o mercado de venda de dados pessoais que avança na internet.Palavras-chave: Economia da Intrusão; Privacidade; Mercado de Dados Pessoais; Modulação; Internet.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the economy of personal data interception, also called the intrusion economy, an important component of the informational economy.  It shows the dynamics of attention-getting and the growing need to capture personal data aiming at modulating behaviour and influencing the choices of internet users. The paper points to the conflictual relationship between the right to privacy on one hand and the growing market for personal data on the other.Keywords: Intrusion Economy; Privacy; Market for Personal Data; Modulation; Internet. 

Legal Protection of the Right to be Forgotten on the Internet in European and Arab Legislation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Jamal Barafi ◽  
Ali Hadi Al-Obeidi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
European Approach ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Right To Be Forgotten ◽  
The Right

Abstract The development of the Internet and mass media has facilitated access to information and freedom of expression in unprecedented ways, but in so doing there have been many violations, especially of the right to privacy. Such violations have led to calls for the establishment of the right to be forgotten. In this paper, we focus on clarifying the concept of the right to be forgotten and the conditions for establishing this. Moreover, we consider the European approach to the right to be forgotten (RTBF), showing how different European instruments have been employed to recognize this right, such as recommendations, regulations, and directives, in order to coordinate national efforts on this issue. In addition, this paper will analyze the stance of some national Arabic legislation regarding the RTBF.

scholarly journals Prinsip Moral Sebagai Klaim Pada Hak Cipta Dan Hak Untuk Dilupakan (Right To Be Forgotten)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Bambang Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Right To Be Forgotten ◽  
Private Data ◽  
The Right

<p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><em>In this current digital era, the issue how to protect private-personal electronic or digital data creates the need for the recognition of a new legal right (right to be forgotten/right to delete). Legal recognition of this right must be balanced with the duty of internet service provider to control and monitor the dispersion of negative content (resulting in copyright infringements, infringements of the sanctity of personal-private data, etc.).  With the amendment of Law No. 11 of 2008 re. Electronic Information and Transactions, it becomes appropriate to discuss the right to be forgotten in terms of moral principles. The existence of this moral right is reflected in the legal protection of copyright as well as protection of private-personal data.  The main argument here is that moral principle or right as part of natural law should be used to explain the existence and importance of the right to be forgotten.</em>

Freedom of Speech, Privacy, and Ethical and Social Responsibility in Democracy in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-83
Author(s):  
José Poças Rascão
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

The article addresses human rights, in particular freedom of expression and the right to privacy, including on the internet, proposing to emphasize the issue of their dialectics in the context of contemporary digital society that, in the face of the digitization of modern life, faces many challenges. It becomes necessary in this way to understand, through a theoretical review, the history of fundamental human rights, a psychosocial analysis of the concepts of freedom and privacy, the normative framework in which they fall, the internet as a platform for exercising rights and freedoms, the problems associated with it, digital data and people's movements, citizen surveillance, social engineering of power, online social networks and e-commerce, and spaces of trust and conflict.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Hepburn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
The Church

In the 1940s and 1950s, Britain was relatively uniform in terms of race and religion. The majority of Britons adhered to the Church of England, although Anglo-Catholic leanings—the last gasp of the Oxford Movement—prompted some people to convert to Roman Catholicism. Although the secularization thesis has had a tenacious grip on twentieth-century literary studies, it does not account for the flare-up of interest in religion in mid-century Britain. The ecumenical movement, which began in the 1930s in Europe, went into suspension during the war, and returned with vigour after 1945, advocated international collaboration among Christian denominations and consequently overlapped with the promotion of human rights, especially the defence of freedom of worship, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, and freedom of expression.

Sedition in Liberal Democracies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anushka Singh
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Indian Experience ◽  
Judicial Discourse ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

Liberal democracies claim to give constitutional and legal protection of varying degrees to the right to free speech of which political speech and the right to dissent are extensions. Within the right to freedom of expression, however, some category of speeches do not enjoy protection as they are believed to be ‘injurious’ to society. One such unprotected form of political speech is sedition which is criminalized for the repercussions it may have on the authority of the government and the state. The cases registered in India in recent months under the law against sedition show that the law in its wide and diverse deployment was used against agitators in a community-based pro-reservation movement, a group of university students for their alleged ‘anti-national’ statements, anti-liquor activists, to name a few. Set against its contemporary use, this book has used sedition as a lens to probe the fate of political speech in liberal democracies. The work is done in a comparative framework keeping the Indian experience as its focus, bringing in inferences from England, USA, and Australia to intervene and contribute to the debates on the concept of sedition within liberal democracies at large. On the basis of an analytical enquiry into the judicial discourse around sedition, the text of the sedition laws, their political uses, their quotidian existence, and their entanglement with the counter-terror legislations, the book theorizes upon the life of the law within liberal democracies.

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