ISSUES IN COMPUTING

Legal and Professional Issues in Computing

Legal and Professional Issues in Computing

Governmental databases

The principles of integrated access to information may apply to almost all types of information held by the government, but particularly to information that allows the government to hold accountable for its activities. When he has free access to information, the public can question the government's actions and meaningful participation in its decisions. This transparency helps creating a culture of accountability. Government transparency and access to information are vital in a society free and democratic. To participate truly in the life of the community, citizens must have the right access to information held by government. But this is not possible if the information on government activities is inaccessible to the public (European Commission 2008, p. 6).

Privacy and data protection on the Internet are issues that the international community has focused on studying and analyzing more closely, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Protectionist measure to safeguard and protect the rights and freedoms of individuals, including the right to privacy and free movement of personal data, rights enshrined in the constitutions and laws of the Member States and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, searching based on these legal systems, to protect European citizens at the time to provide personal information to companies, subsidiaries, sites and governmental and nongovernmental agencies online that are physically located within Europe or having their servers outside the member countries of the European Union.

In May 2002, the European Commission prepared a questionnaire to member states in order to effectively implement the Directive. Most governments have sent the first part of their response to the European Commission in June 2002. Recently the UK Government sent some of their responses to this questionnaire to the European Commission and among other things proposes to review not only some rules to implement this Directive in your country due to the speed and changes that have occurred in technological developments but above all in order to provide greater flexibility and effectiveness of their monitoring bodies at the same time it will safeguard the protection of personal data of British citizens (European Commission 2008, p. 6).

More advanced and developed e-government applications and increased its audience the greater the knowledge of the needs of its citizens and their private information is stored in the organs and systems, databases, government, and this is what will make the citizen to the government of personal information to his medical and health, and property to a group of licenses held by: All this information will be available for e-government and those who made it. From a technical standpoint, the means available for e-government, including data encryption, to verify the identity of the user, make sure your usage rights to the Information sources achieve a high degree of privacy, but the crisis also appears to be the crisis of confidence between the government and the public, not crisis technology (Muncaster, ...