Transparência e privacidade : violação e proteção da informação pessoal na sociedade de consumo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The massive employ of personal data by public and private organisms derived from advanced information technologies presents new challenges to the right to privacy. By the combination from multiple automation techniques, one is enabled to obtain sensitive information about citizens, which grounds the process of taking economic, political and social decisions. The analysis of personal data handling in consumptions relation must take into account mainly the consumers vulnerability. In light of this fact, state intervention is required in order to protect consumers personal data, since the market actually reinforces his vulnerability instead of overcoming it. Under this point of view and with the aim of offering a proper response to social challenges arising from the technological revolution, it is crucial to reconstruct Brazilian civil law so to perceive and solve new problems facing citizens in information age. An effective enforcement of the fundamental right to personal data protection depends in great measure upon collective responses. For this reason, the commitment to an informational democracy is vital to protect citizen self-determination and freedom from personal data control, as well as to avoid prejudicial employment of these data. Pursuing these purposes, one needs not only a legal culture capable of comprehending personal data protection as an autonomous fundamental right, but also a regulatory architecture able to state personal data protection as an essential theme for public policies.

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privacidade de informação pessoal equity sociedade da informação privacy tecnologia igualdade information society constituição federal database technology direito constitucional consumer dados pessoais banco de dados personal information direitos fundamentais consumer society sociedade de consumo fundamental rights, federal constitution liberdade personal data consumidor freedom

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