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Week 11 Regulation and Control of Personal Information - Data Protection, Defamation and Related Issues

This document discusses issues around the regulation and control of personal information in the digital age. It covers topics such as data protection, privacy, and how computerization has revolutionized data handling and processing. The impact of the internet is discussed, as well as factors affecting regulation of data processing and a convergence of data protection practices across jurisdictions. The document also touches on defamation and protection of reputation in the online context.

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Week 11 Regulation and Control of Personal Information - Data Protection, Defamation and Related Issues

This document discusses issues around the regulation and control of personal information in the digital age. It covers topics such as data protection, privacy, and how computerization has revolutionized data handling and processing. The impact of the internet is discussed, as well as factors affecting regulation of data processing and a convergence of data protection practices across jurisdictions. The document also touches on defamation and protection of reputation in the online context.

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Professional Practices

CS 625

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Regulation and control of personal information:
data protection, defamation and related issues

Introduction:
We can not deny the dramatic impact which increasing
computerization has had on the storage, processing, retention and
release of information and data.

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Introduction(Continued…)

 Computerization has revolutionized the handling and


processing of information to such an extent that the data itself
has now become a commodity which possesses commercial
value and can be traded on the market in the same way as any
other commodity
 The value to businesses is also enhanced by the fact that how
easily and safely data can be transferred around the globe

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Data Protection and Privacy

 Data protection refers to how your personal information is used


by the organization or being an organization, how you would
make sure to protect data of your customers, employees etc

 Privacy refers to the privilege provided to an individual by law


or by the organizational policy where the individual can keep
the information secret to or from a specific group

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The impact of the Internet
 The original challenge of data protection law was to provide a suitable
mechanism for dealing with the perceived threat to individual privacy of
large centralized data banks
 The development of global information networks has changed and
intensified the character of the privacy protection problem
 The question which is inevitably being asked is whether the original
formulation of data protection law is capable of controlling the
amorphous decentralized activities which occur through the medium of
the Internet and World Wide Web

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Factors affecting the regulation of data
processing
 There is by no means a straightforward answer to this question,
complicated as the issues are by rapidly advancing technology, the global
nature of the activities to be regulated and the variety of possible regulatory
approaches to be found in the various legal traditions within the world
 Formidable problems of policy and implementation are presented by the
attempt to regulate systems and practices that are technologically advanced,
widely professional issues in software engineering dispersed, rapidly
changing and employed by powerful economic and government interests

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Convergence of Data Protection Practices

 It is an observed fact that, at the level of international


agreements and national legislation, the requirements imposed
by this particular type of technology have resulted in a
convergence of the rules made to ensure good data management
 An example in this respect is the emergence of data protection
principles or fair use guidelines which have created a
harmonizing effect on national legislation on data protection

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Defamation and Protection of Reputation

 Even without the cover of anonymity, the various methods


available for the dissemination of information on computer
networks provide fertile ground for the propagation of
information about others
 What redress is available for those who feel that untrue and
unwarranted statements have been circulated about them

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 Publication of such material might attract an action for
defamation. Such actions are not uncommon against
newspapers and other sections of the media
 Although there may be some differences of degree and
substance, most jurisdictions provide some form of remedy for
injury to a person’s integrity or reputation

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