What 's on your calendar for January 28? A lunch appointment? A few meetings? How about Data Privacy Day? Since 2007, people all over the world have set aside January 28 as a day to raise awareness of the issues surrounding data privacy and protection. What does this mean for you? It gives you an opportunity to learn how data privacy affects you, and what you can do to protect yourself and others from a potential security breach. Read on to learn how to make the most of this Data Privacy Day.
What Are the Origins of Data Privacy Day?
Back on January 28, 1981, the Council of Europe opened something called the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (or Convention 108) for signature by its members. In short, the goal of the Convention was to give individuals legal protection regarding the automatic collection of their personal data. While many individual countries had some regulations governing the automatic collection of data, the Convention provided standard, comprehensive requirements on an international scale. As explained by the National Cyber Security Alliance, it was "the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection." the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. - See more at: http://www.staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/about#sthash.A07CM4jz.dpuf the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data
Concerns regarding the loss of personal privacy were the premier public issues to gain significant public attention during the period when computers were initially developed, and personal information database started to be used by corporations
As human beings and citizens of the world, everyone values their privacy. It is a right that is often looked over and taken for granted by most. Since the beginning of time, there have been concerns about individuals’ rights to privacy and their personal information remaining confidential. Our founding fathers had concerns about this which is why, “…this right has developed into
The right to privacy is viewed as a fundamental right all over the world. However, there are many interpretations of what privacy is, and this interpretations are in some way related to historical events that shaped the meaning of privacy differently for every country. Countries of the European Union consider the right to privacy a sacred right, therefore, they have established laws to protect the respect for private and family life and the right to personal data protection. Although United States has some sector laws to protect privacy, the constitution does not mention privacy as fundamental right, nonetheless, the notion of privacy can be extracted from the first 10 amendments of the constitution. Consequently, regulation of the right to privacy changes drastically between Europe and the United States. Countries in Europe have regulatory agencies whose only purpose is protect the privacy of its citizens. In contrast, the
Privacy is one of the most controversial, yet most essential topics in the discussion of civil liberties. Some treat it as a necessity along with life, liberty, and property, whereas other people see it as something that shouldn’t get in the way of things like security (Sadowski).
This act was brought in by Parliament in order to define the UK law on processing data. This governs the protection of personal data in the UK. It also helps to control how an individual’s personal information is used by many different businesses and organisations that may contact them. Anyone who can be held responsible for using data must follow specific rules/guidelines e.g. data must be used fairly and lawfully, it must be used for limited and stated purposes, and it must be used in a way that is adequate. This act replaced another legislation act that was implemented in 1984. This act was also based on data protection.
data. This allows people to control their own personal data but the act mostly does not apply to
Third, it places restrictions on how agencies can share an individual's data with other people and companies. Fourth and finally, it lets individuals sue the government for violating its provisions," (Apollo Group, 2013).
The relationship in the middle of gathering and scattering of information, innovation, people in general desire of security and the legitimate and political issues encompassing them. However, the Data Protection Act 1998 is an Act intended to ensure data held about people. All associations including health and social care organisations must enroll as an information client and take after the principles gave.
Privacy is what allows people to feel secure in their surroundings. With privacy, one is allowed to withhold or distribute the information they want by choice, but the ability to have that choice is being violated in today’s society. Benjamin Franklin once said, “He who sacrifices freedom or liberty will eventually have neither.” And that’s the unfortunate truth that is and has occurred in recent years. Privacy, especially in such a fast paced moving world, is extremely vital yet is extremely violated, as recently discovered the NSA has been spying on U.S. citizens for quite a while now; based on the Fourth Amendment, the risk of leaked and distorted individual information, as well as vulnerability to lack of anonymity.
It was designed to protect individual’s personal information from being passed on to other people, also known as confidentiality.
The Privacy was enacted for the use of computerized databases that might impact the individual’s privacy rights. Here are key provisions of the act:
Data Protection Act (1998) made provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to individuals, including the obtaining, holding, use or disclosure of such information. It was amended in 2003 to include electronic data.
Finding a job is not going to be an easy task. There are going to many considerations that an individual is going to look at. Location of the job is going to be the number one aspect of a job. Location is going to determine the hours of driving, gas, reliable transportation. Lunch is going to be another thing. Lunch is not going to be an easy task since it is going to require money and especially if your trying to watch your budget. The author Lemons (2003) stated that consumers spend on average $855 per person for food away from home in 2000. Some of that spending went to lunch. Full-time employees who buy lunch away from home spend on average of $4 or $5 per day, according to the associations. According to this research, $4 or $5 a month
Privacy is a fundamental right and most governments around the world have tried to protect the privacy rights of their citizens. A person has the right to determine what kind of information is taken about them and the purpose of that information. This helps to protect people
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was designed to harmonize the data privacy laws across Europe. This is mainly done to protect and empower the EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations approach data privacy. Let’s understand the requirements of Europe’s GDPR privacy and how it affects US companies.