ONLINE PRIVACY

Online privacy

Online privacy

Introduction

Personal data and protection are a hot topic for the beginning of the twenty first century. This topic has no exaggeration affects on how our whole society and each individual react to it. Each of us lives his private and his public life, even if it is not possible at first sight quite evident personal data in an environment in which we operate, are essential part of our everyday existence. Identifying and collecting information about citizens is not the achievement of decades or centuries of existence of our civilization. The private data in certain forms and in some other ways has been collected since the establishment of the first companies. Always, it was the “inherent and inalienable property absolutely everyone have, regardless of their economic situation and social status. This definition is of course even today, only with a difference. This unique property is now possible to obtain certain ways, assemble and continue to treat him like any other commodity. Personal and private information as well as details begin to be officially recognized value and have its price. Reward can equal the price for the loss of privacy.

Discussion

Privacy can be defined as “circuit facts personal life. In the case of adoption of this definition, then, respecting privacy lies in the fact that without proper reason, these facts were collected and disseminated.” Few people realize it, but the right to privacy is a basic human rights. Underpins human dignity and other fundamental values such as freedom of assembly and freedom of expression to the right to privacy would today be regarded as one of the most important human rights of the modern age. Lately, we occasionally meet with the view that privacy you actually have. That stopped there. The media described the current case of one American woman who sued for that kind of company accidentally published the personal data on its website and she received nothing. It turned out that it has no privacy. Rather, it was the Internet itself published. The lawyers submitted the file in which the available information was put in her life. This case clearly demonstrates the risk that may threaten all of us, if your privacy and will not weigh it lightly crumble and give in pieces, until there's really nothing.

The threat of loss of privacy

Recently, there is increasingly confronted with the threat of misuse of our personal data and information on our privacy. New information technologies that gradually emerge and permeate society play in this case, the ambivalent role. Just because the Internet is now possible to find data that were previously unavailable. Just because mobile phones can be installed “Monitoring” programs that we can watch all day. Thanks to the electronic payment system which is about us, banks and traders know where and what you like to buy. “Big Brother” is watching us today, and perhaps more than they suspect, and more than we would like. Today's capacity to collect personal data and private data are vast and from individuals essentially ...