The information law and society

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INFORMATION LAW AND SOCIETY
AUGUST 20, 2019
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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 1
Literature review............................................................................................................. 2
Should there be a global right to privacy in the digital age?......................................................2
Data Privacy Should be a Basic Human Right......................................................................3
Information law............................................................................................................... 4
Ethical issues.................................................................................................................. 5
Reforms to protect right of privacy in digital age-.....................................................................6
Online privacy laws....................................................................................................... 6
The Privacy Act (Cth) 1988.......................................................................................... 7
The Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic)................................................................7
The Health Records Act 2001 (Vic)................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 9
References................................................................................................................... 10

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Introduction
The right to privacy is a concept stating that personal data of someone is secured from the public
inspection. The main concentration on the right to privacy is depended on the certain new
certainties of digital age. The digital Privacy is the collective meaning that incorporates three
sub-related types. These types are information privacy, individual privacy as well as
communication privacy. When the data is uncovered by the digital mediums like social media,
the people also more alerted to privacy concerns. The personal space as well as securities, which
were previously granted merely by physical separation, are no more secured. The digital
networks enter the immediate spaces and challenges the normally accepted notions of the private.
It highlights the new sources of practising the financial powers, social powers as well as the
political powers, as well as decreasing the independences. Alike in physical space, the public as
well as private should be detached in the digital dominion. It is essentially required to get
constitutional meaning as well as assurance of a right to individuality, right of privacy and right
of personal autonomy in digital age. In the following parts, the rights of privacy in digital age is
discussed and examined.
Literature review
Should there be a global right to privacy in the digital age?
The privacy is considered as a right to be free from unjustified interruption and to maintain some
matters from the view of public. The privacy is very significant factor in the self-sufficiency of

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the individual. The privacy has always been the critical phase of individual presence. However,
by way of more data turn out to be digitized, as well as more data is shared online; the data
privacy is becoming very significant. The right of data privacy is very crucial issue in the
modern digital policy (Thorogood, Deschênes St-Pierre and Knoppers, 2017). The data privacy
states how the data must be handled on the basis of apparent significance. This is not only the
concern of the business; it is also the concern of individual while it comes to a privacy of the
personal information. The more a person alert for it, the better a person will be capable to protect
himself from the numerous issues. The matter of data privacy is significantly implemented to
critical individual data in the digital age. This is also considered as the personal health
information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). It normally involves the medical
records, financial information, health related records, social protection number, and fundamental
or sensitive data such as birth dates, complete name, as well as address (Thorogood, et. al, 2017).
In addition, for the business, the data privacy exceeds the personally identifiable information of
the workers and clients. This also includes the data, which is helpful in operating the business. It
is well known that while the data that must continue private gets in the doubtful hands, bad
things adopt (Johnston, 2017). The right to privacy in the digital age is susceptible destructively
by data mechanization. Further, in all over the world, the government aggressively secure data
privacy by the strong laws as well as rules as persistent e-surveillance increase. There are the
crucial requirements to renovate the nation-wide surveillance approaches for securing the
privacy of everybody, or risks relentlessly restricting the prospective of Internet. The privacy is
very significant device to get the self-critical democracy wherever the residents are not
unsuspected dealers of the data to all-considering and all-optimizing technocrats (Pecl, et. al,
2017). In this way, the right to privacy in digital age requires the united and worldwide