Privacy concerns exist wherever personally identifiable information is collected and stored – in digital form or otherwise. Improper or non-existent disclosure control can be the root cause for privacy issues. Data privacy issues can arise in response to information from a wide range of sources, such as :
Healthcare records *
Criminal justice investigations and proceedings *
Financial institutions and transactions *
Biological traits, such as genetic material *
Residence and geographic records *
Ethnicity *
The challenge in data privacy is to share data while protecting personally identifiable information. The fields of data security and information security design and utilize software, hardware and human resources to address this issue
Internet privacy :
The ability to control the information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and who can access that information, has become a growing concern. These concerns include whether email can be stored or read by third parties without consent, or whether third parties can continue to track the web sites someone has visited. Another concern is which web sites which are visited collect, store, and possibly share personally identifiable information about users.
The advent of various search engines and the use of data mining created a capability for data about individuals to be collected and combined from a wide variety of sources very easily.
The FTC has provided a set of guidelines that represent widely-accepted concepts concerning fair information practices in an electronic marketplace called the Fair Information Practice Principles
* In order not to give away too much personal information, e-mails should be encrypted and browsing of webpages as well as other online activities should be done traceless via anonymizers
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Data protection : isUse of techniques such as file locking and record locking , database shadowing , disk mirroring , to ensure the availability and integrity of the data
So what is the current legal position?
Although there is no general right of privacy enshrined in UK law, the UK Data Protection Act 1998, (the 'Act') and the data protection principles it contains, provide clear protections for individuals in respect of the "processing" of their personal information (meaning here any conceivable use of their data). The Act implements an EU Directive on data protection which means that broadly equivalent legal protections in respect of processing of personal data exist across the European Union.
References :
* Salma Ibrahim AL- ghomari
* 3051026
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