The purpose of the study was to determine consumer attitudes toward privacy and the influence of demographic factors on these attitudes. The study also sought to determine the willingness of participants to disclose selected individual information items and determine the awareness and acceptance level of technological innovations such as radio frequency identifiers (RFID) as they relate to privacy. A quantitative instrument was developed and a convenience sample of university students (N=203) was tested. Results showed that educational background played a role in the way participants perceived the applications of RFID.

1 Monitoring of employees in context of General Data Protection Regulation Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on the supervision and monitoring of employees from multiple perspectives. Based on the relevant European and national caselaw the thesis specifies whether employees shall have right to the protection of their privacy and integrity at the workplace. Thesis also analyses selected aspects of personal data protection with emphasis on personal data of employees as data subjects processed by employers as controllers. In particular attention is devoted to selected obligations, which arises from General Data Protection Regulation for such personal data processing in the light of relevant statements and guidelines provided by the European Data Protection Board, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party and the Office for Personal Data Protection. Thesis in detail addresses the supervision of employees carried out by § 316 of the Labour code, whereas interprets its provisions as well as conditions for establishing the supervision of employees arising from such interpretation. Classification of the provisions of the § 316 paragraph 1 to 3 and their interdependencies are further outlined. Thesis defines monitoring as one way to carry out supervision under paragraph 2 through the analysis of the term...

This thesis explores if and how states can regain control over large social media platforms like Facebook, and by doing so ensuring that individuals on those platforms can de facto enjoy their human rights, as enshrined in international treaties. Today, the platforms are crucial facilitators of human rights but at the same time facilitators of threats towards the enjoyment of the same rights. Behind this duality hides three gaps, namely between individuals’ de jure enshrined human rights and their de facto possibilities to enjoy them on social media, states extensive de jure obligations to ensure those rights on social media and their limited de facto possibilities to actually do so, and lastly between the platforms limited de jure responsibilities to respect human rights and their extensive de facto influence over human rights. The reason that these gaps have arisen is essentially that public international law – mainly its strict horizontal character and its definition of jurisdiction as something exclusively tied to a delimited physical territory – is inadequate to tackle the virtual, cross-border, and non-state activity that the platforms are pursuing. To find what could be done to lessen these gaps, this thesis turns to theories in analytical jurisprudence and public international law: the identity of systems, legal pluralism and international legal subjectivity. The first suggests that this issue cannot be solved due to different legal systems having different identities and thus cannot be bridged. The second also suggests that the issue cannot be solved not because of differing identities of systems but because the platforms should be regarded as autonomous legal systems, not subordinate to state law. Finally, the third alternative suggests an actual solution: making the platforms subject directly to international law and universal jurisdiction. Even though this is a legally sound solution it is, however, not as simple a solution as it might appear.

The purpose of the study was to determine how the Fourth Amendment is treated in the age of the internet. To determine the degree of the significance of this relationship a comparative approach is used. Court opinions from cases involving other technological innovations and the Fourth Amendment were examined and their reasoning was compared to that of cases involving the internet and the Fourth Amendment. The results indicated that contrary to some fears that the internet would require a different approach with respect to the law it actually did not present many novel barriers to its application. The principle conclusion was that the reasoning used in cases involving older technologies, namely the test outlined in Katz v. United States, was consistently applied even in the age of the internet.

Univ., Diss.--Mannheim, 2005. / Literaturverz. S. 237 - 261.

Informacijos apie asmens sveikatos būklę konfidencialumas yra svarbi įstatymų saugoma vertybė. Tačiau teisės doktrinoje, teisės aktuose ir teismų praktikoje pri¬pažįstama, kad teisė į privataus gyvenimo neliečiamumą nėra absoliuti. Kai ribojama asmens teisė į privatų gyvenimą, toks ribojimas turi būti numatytas įstatymų lygmenyje ir ad hoc analizuojama, ar toks ribojimas yra būtinas demokratinėje visuomenėje, siekiant ap¬saugoti teisėtą tikslą. Darbe yra nagrinėjami ir vertinami informacijos apie asmens sveikatos būklę atskleidimo tretiesiems asmenims atvejai, identifikuojami pažeidimai ir pateikiamos rekomendacijos, kokių teisinių priemonių įgyvendinimas padėtų tinkamai užtikrinti asmens teisę į šią privataus gyvenimo sritį. Darbe pristatoma asmens sveikatos informacijos konfidencialumo samprata, aprašoma, koks yra asmens, kaip paciento, teisės į privataus gyvenimo neliečiamumą reglamentavimas Lietuvoje, pristatoma šalių praktika, identifikuojami sveikatos informacijos konfidencialumo principo ribojimai, pateikiami atvejai, kuomet informacija apie asmens sveikatos būklę yra atskleidžiama pažeidžiant teisės aktus, taip pat vertinami atvejai, kai galimai ultra vires įstatymų leidėjas priima įstatymus, kurie prieštarauja LR Konstitucijai ir tarptautinėms sutartims. Darbe yra išsikeliamos dvi hipotezės: H1 – Lietuvoje be paciento sutikimo atskleidžiant informaciją apie paciento sveikatos būklę draudimo įstaigoms pažeidžiama asmens teisė į privatų gyvenimą; H2 – Lietuvoje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Confidentiality of personal health information is an important value which is protected by The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and other laws. However, the right to confidentiality is not recognized as absolute in the doctrine of law, legislation and legal cases. When there is the restriction of confidentiality of personal health information, it is necessary to emphasize the principle of necessity to protect a legitimate target which is necessary in a democratic society. It is important to notice that every restriction must be provided at the level of a piece of legislation. In the paper there is analyzed and evaluated the cases of the disclosure of personal health information to third parties, identified violations and made recommendations what legislative measures should be implemented to ensure the patient's right to private life. In the paper there has set the following objectives: to analyze the current situation in Lithuania what there is the regulation of the patient's right to privacy; to present the practice of different countries about patient's right to privacy; to carry out a theoretical analysis by comparing the various scientific researches on the personal health privacy; to determine what is the restrictions for the principle of medical confidentiality; to identify privacy problems while disclosing personal health information; to reveal when information is disclosed in accordance... [to full text]

Ce mémoire traite de la portée de la protection constitutionnelle du droit à la vie privée informationnelle au Canada, au regard de la surveillance électronique gouvernementale à grande échelle des métadonnées des communications électroniques, à des fins de sécurité nationale. Il est soutenu, après une présentation de l’importance démocratique de la vie privée, de même que de la nature et de la portée de certaines activités gouvernementales de surveillance électronique, que le cadre d’analyse du « Biographical core », qui conditionne l’étendue de la protection de la vie privée informationnelle en droit constitutionnel canadien, est susceptible d’inclure les métadonnées des communications électroniques. Cette position est appuyée par un argumentaire juridique fondé sur les règles d’interprétation et la jurisprudence constitutionnelle pertinente. Cet argumentaire se trouve renforcé par potentiel considérablement révélateur des métadonnées, des particularités propres aux activités de surveillance électronique analysées, ainsi que des implications non-juridiques soulevées par ces dernières. / This master’s thesis focuses on the scope of the Canadian constitutional protection of the right to privacy, in view of the wide scale governmental electronic surveillance of electronic communications metadata, conducted for national security purposes. It is argued, following a detailed presentation of the nature and extent of certain specific governmental electronic surveillance activities, that the « Biographical core » analytical framework, governing the scope of the protection granted to informational privacy in Canadian constitutional law, is most likely applicable to electronic communications metadata. This position is directly supported by the relevant constitutional interpretation rules and cases. This is particularly true in light of the fact that metadata are, inherently, potentially significantly revealing, especially considering the capacities of an array of electronic surveillance activities, as well as the non-legal implications they entail for privacy.

This thesis deals with the Act no. 52/2009 Coll., which amends the Act no. 141/1961 Coll. (Penal Procedure Code), as amended by latter Acts, and some other Acts. Because of its alleged censorial character, it was often referred to as the "Muzzle Act" by local media. The thesis is composed of five parts. The first one describes methods used in the rest of the text, the second one explains main theoretical concepts and essential topics that are important for understanding the other parts - right to privacy, right to information, publication of transcripts obtained by eavesdropping devices etc. It also describes contents of the "Muzzle Act" and its amendment. The third part reviews how the Act passed the legislative process in both chambers of the Parliament, including protests of media and some scholars against it. All the main reasons why protestors considered the Act censorial or even unconstitutional are drawn up in the fourth part of the thesis. It also sums up thoughts and confronts thoughts of people who argued in favour of the Act. In the fifth part, journalists from Czech News Agency (ČTK), daily newspaper Mladá fronta DNES, weekly magazine Respekt and news website Aktuálně.cz describe how the Act influenced their working habits and contents of their media. One specialist in the field of journalism...

The primary aim of this Master thesis entitled "Freedom of the Media versus Public Figures' Right to Privacy" is to investigate and analyse the conflict between freedom of the media and right to privacy of public persons. The thesis is formally structured into eight thematical chapters and two parts- theoretical and analytical. The theoretical part of the thesis provides legal, philosophical and media background for further analysis in the special part of the thesis. The analytical part deals with selected case studies of media photography conflicting with right to privacy of public figures. First chapter focuses on the freedom of speech and freedom of the media in historical, legal and philosophical perspective, deals also with the problem of censorship and technological challenges in the postmodern electronic age of the internet. Second chapter critically examines the concept of watchdog journalism in democratic system with special interest in the debate on the current affairs of the British media system. Third chapter deals with right to privacy and reflects also on the fluid concept of privacy in the era of social networking. Fourth chapter analyzes so-called public figure doctrine, celebritization and mediatization of politics and also discusses the collision between free speech and privacy....

Submitted by Kelson Anthony de Menezes (kelson@ucb.br) on 2017-01-10T10:46:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DaianaFerreiradeAlmadaDissertacao2015.pdf: 1483376 bytes, checksum: d2244e7794f69fc313613adf88291e7e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-10T10:46:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DaianaFerreiradeAlmadaDissertacao2015.pdf: 1483376 bytes, checksum: d2244e7794f69fc313613adf88291e7e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / Taxation and Human Rights are interconnected institutes. The federated beings, when exercising that power, must be guided by Human Rights. The State, which is responsible for safeguarding and promoting them, uses tax revenues to effective them to do so. Sometimes when exercising his empire power it ends up restricting certain rights such as the right to intimacy and to privacy as provided in sections X and XII of art. 5 of the Federal Constitution of 1988. When involving cases related to bank secrecy, which although are not included explicitly in the list of fundamental rights, were recognized by the Supreme Court as a fundamental right and to occur its relativisation it is necessary the authorization of the Judiciary (understanding of the Supreme Court). However the Complementary Law No. 105/2001, in its Articles 5 and 6, brought the prediction of the Tax Administration which has access to taxpayers??? data banking, provided that there is administrative process instituted or tax proceeding in progress, prescription which has turned into a target of some Direct actions of Unconstitutionalities (ADI's), which are open to trial until the present time. We understand that there are no reasons for the Guardian of the Federal Constitution to declare the unconstitutionality of the referred law, given that there isn???t jurisdiction reservation consignment in sections X and XII of art. 5 of the Magna Carta, so that at first the participation of the judiciary would not be mandatory, but the last to be checked in each case, a failure to follow legal requirements or possible abuse of power by of the IRS agents. The right to bank secrecy should not be opposed to the tax authorities, given that the information obtained will be safeguarded by the functional duty, and any abuse will be punished with the rigors of the law. The access to taxpayers??? banking data and the exchange of international information in tax matters have become a very important tool for Tax Administration nowadays. In today's international arena for exchanging information, the Federative Republic of Brazil signed up with the United States an Intergovernmental Agreement for implementing a set of North American standards, known as Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act - FATCA - which amended the Court Code of this country, predicting that financial institutions should send automatically banking information of American account holders to the tax authorities of the country like Brazil has incorporated this Agreement in Brazilian law, it will be left to the Constitution Guardian to determine the subject once it has prevailed in this Court that bank secrecy, except in cases permitted constitutionally, can only be qualified by court order. / Tributa????o e Direitos Humanos s??o institutos interligados. Os entes federados ao exercerem a compet??ncia tribut??ria devem ser norteados pelos Direitos Humanos. O Estado, sendo respons??vel pela tutela e promo????o de tais, utiliza-se da arrecada????o tribut??ria para efetiv??-los, para tanto, ??s vezes ao exercer seu poder de imp??rio acaba por ter que restringir alguns direitos, como ?? o caso do direito ?? intimidade e ?? vida privada, previsto nos incisos X e XII, do art. 5??, da Constitui????o Federal de 1988, quando envolvem casos relacionados com o sigilo banc??rio, que apesar de n??o est?? inclu??do de forma expressa no rol dos direitos fundamentais, foi reconhecido pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal como direito fundamental e, para que ocorra sua relativiza????o, prescinde de autoriza????o do Poder Judici??rio (entendimento do STF). Por??m, a Lei Complementar n?? 105/2001, em seus artigos 5?? e 6??, trouxe a previs??o da Administra????o Tribut??ria tem acesso a dados banc??rios dos contribuintes, desde que exista processo administrativo instaurado ou procedimento fiscal em curso, prescri????o esta que virou alvo de algumas A????es Diretas de Inconstitucionalidades (ADI??s), que encontram-se pendentes de julgamento at?? o presente momento. Entendemos que n??o h?? motivos, para o Guardi??o da Constitui????o Federal, declarar a inconstitucionalidade de referida Lei, tendo em vista que n??o existe nos incisos X e XII, do art. 5??, da Carta Magna, consigna????o de reserva de jurisdi????o, de modo que no primeiro momento, n??o seria obrigat??rio a participa????o do Poder Judici??rio, mas a ??ltima em se verificando, em cada caso concreto, inobserv??ncia dos preceitos legais ou eventuais abuso de poder por parte dos agentes do Fisco. O direito ao sigilo banc??rio, n??o deve ser oposto ?? Administra????o Tribut??ria, tendo em vista que ??s informa????es obtidas, estar??o resguardadas pelo dever funcional, e eventuais abusos, ser??o punidos com os rigores da lei. O acesso aos dados banc??rios dos contribuintes e a troca de informa????es internacionais em mat??ria tribut??rias, tem se tornado, nos dias atuais, uma ferramenta de suma import??ncia ?? Administra????o Tribut??ria. Diante do atual cen??rio internacional de troca de informa????es, a Rep??blica Federativa do Brasil celebrou com os Estados Unidos um Acordo Intergovernamental, para implementar um conjunto de normas norte-americana, conhecida Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ??? FATCA - que alterou o C??digo Tribunal deste pa??s, prevendo que ??s institui????es financeiras devem encaminhar de forma autom??tica informa????es banc??rias dos correntistas norte-americanos ?? Administra????o Tribut??ria do pa??s, como o Brasil incorporou tal Acordo no direito brasileiro, restar?? ao Guardi??o da Constitui????o se manifestar acerca do assunto, uma vez que, tem prevalecido neste Tribunal, que o sigilo banc??rio, ressalvados os casos permitidos constitucionalmente, apenas pode ser relativizado mediante ordem judicial.