European data protection and privacy law

Introduction

In the global perspective, it has been noticed that, over the past few decades, businesses as well as individuals, have made a huge amount of investment, in the information as well as communications technologies. If we sum these two phenomena, the single most powerful thing that has emerged out of it is the facility of the internet. If, on one side, we see to the advantages of the internet, on the other end we could also, see few of the fatal consequences which are associated with the usage and the widespread of the internet.

In recent times, social networking services have experienced significant boom to the public. Among other things, these services offer a means of interaction based on personal profiles that generate their own subscribers. It has led to an unprecedented level of disclosure of personal information of people interested (and others). You must be careful to reiterate, with the amount of information available to others, and enable access to it, as far as possible, only users who believe contacts or friends. Several stories have appeared in recent months about people who had lost their jobs or other assets for an unfortunate comment on Face book or Twitter to finally reaching the ears, eyes, or rather, the wrong person. To avoid this, and setting up adequate privacy, you must know the rudiments of the network you are using and not abusing the public reading sections, most with a private courier such matters. On the other hand, neither hurts to learn to bite your tongue or fingers, virtually speaking.

Personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a photo, an email address, and bank details, your posts on social networking websites, your medical information, or your computer's IP address. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights says that everyone has the right to personal data protection in all aspects of life: at home, at work, whilst shopping, when receiving medical treatment, at a police station or on the Internet.

Discussion

Personal data mainly refers to any of the data that is in the form of information, which relates to the individual, whether tend to be the private information or the information that relates to one's professional or public life. This information can be in many forms. The variety of information stretches from a photo to a name, an email address to the bank details, the post that is posted on the social networking sites, the IP or the MAC address of the computer or the medical or credit history of an individual.

The commission has also discussed the reinforcement of the data security which tends to put another strengthening patch on the data security. The first initiative was about the privacy enhancing technologies. It provokes the technologies which tend to protect the utmost privacy the personal information by mitigating the storage of individual's private data on ...