The dissertation explores the field of information policy in a historic setting in Sweden, namely the early 1970s. At the time the question of privacy in relation to databanks, data systems and personal records was intensively discussed in all public media, starting in the fall of 1970 when a large-scale population census was carried out in Sweden. The political discussions and public debate resulted in the first Swedish data protection law, Datalag (1973:289), and was counted as one of the first of this type of national legislation in the world. The focus of the empirical study lies in the analysis of the lines of arguments, political reasoning and debates concerning privacy, data protection, information and technology in documents such as official reports, committee reports, proposals and parliamentary records and publications that were produced in the policy process preceding the new legislation. The public debate itself is investigated through the editorials and reports in the daily press of the time. A combination of discourse analysis and agenda-setting theory, as it is presented and used by the political scientist John W Kingdon, constitutes the theoretical framework of the thesis. The study is introduced with a discussion concerning discourse and language use in politics, and here Norman Faircloughs CDA, Critical Discourse Analysis, has been the main inspiration. Kingdon’s agendasetting model contributes with an interesting theoretical perspective on the social and political context of the discourses under study. The research questions also draw upon library and information science and theoretical work within the area of information policy, with issues concerning notions of information and technology, for example information as a public good versus private good in the market, and information as a free or restricted/protected resource. The main findings of the study imply that the political discussion and debate on databanks and privacy were heavily influenced by a public-oriented discourse focusing mainly on governmental authorities’ own use of information systems holding personal data. The new legislation, datalag (1973:289) could also be seen as a tool that sanctions governmental authorities’ extensive use and dependence on new data technologies and automatic data-processing in building up the welfare state and the growing public sector. The discourse was also based on a mixed notion of the new technology, perceiving data technology mainly as the “big machine” which contains a vast amount of personal information. This, at a time when the technology itself was transforming rapidly from bulky machines to personal computers. The practical effects of this discourse could be seen, for example, in the serious underestimation of the overall use of automatic data-processing in society as a whole, the use of which the legislation was set to regulate. When it comes to agenda-setting the public debate together with the activities of different actors in parliament had a major influence on the outcome of the work of the commission of inquiry that was set up. The public debate affected how the problem area of databanks and privacy was considered, but the commission formulated the actual legislation independently, without interference or adjustments by the social democratic government. / <p>Akademisk avhandling som med tillstånd av samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Göteborgs universitet för vinnande av doktorsexamen framläggs till offentlig granskning kl. 13.15 fredagen den</p><p>11 september 2009 i hörsalen C204, Högskolan i Borås, Allégatan 1 Institutionen Biblioteks- och Informationsvetenskap/Bibliotekshögskolan, Högskolan i Borås och Göteborgs universitet</p>

6 General / Obecné Personal data protection and public administration Abstract This thesis is aimed to personal data protection in connection to public administration. Given the extensiveness of the topic, the author is focused on the most important issues related to the area of personal data protection. The main area of the study is the terminology, and the effect on the public administration. The goal of the thesis is to provide clear and comprehensive explanation of terms related to personal data protection. The goal is accomplished due to expansive explanation of those terms in order to appropriately connect the reader with the topic. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter aims to systematization of personal data protection. In addition to that, also explaining the crucial term of this thesis, the personal data. The second chapter deals with historical context and evolution of the data protection. The historical context provides the explanation of the relevant data protection laws, which determined the evolution of the data protection itself. The third chapter concentrates to the merit of the thesis, therefore General Data Protection regulation. Each of those subchapters were selected by the author to provide only the crucial terms and not to overflow the reader with a less...

This thesis deals with personal data protection, it focuses on labour law relationships, in particular. The aim of the thesis is to analyze regulation of personal data protection; also, the paper elaborates on difficulties that could be caused by the processing of personal data of employee on the part of employer. The first section of the thesis discusses general basis which represents a solution to concrete cases that are mentioned in the second part. The first two chapters examine sources of the regulation of personal data protection on both levels - on a statutory and constitutional level and also on an international and the European Union level. The third chapter deals with the Office for Personal Data Protection and with its scope of activity, in particular. The following three chapters specify particular definitions and introduce legal regulation of the rights of a data subject on the one hand, and the obligations of a controller or a processor on the other hand. In the general part, a few examples of the processing of personal data by an employer can be found. Those examples are mentioned there to clarify unclear concepts and their definitions. The aim of the last chapter is to capture a range of possible examples of the processing of personal data, which can take place and actually does...

The submitted thesis deals with personal data protection in the context of labour-law relationships. This is an actual and discussed issue in current society, which has constitutional aspects as well. Due to the extensiveness of the topic, the aim of this thesis is not giving a comprehensive explanation of the personal data protection in labour-law relationships area. My effort is to perform the reader with this issue from the general introduction including a survey of the legislation and explanation of main concepts to outlining the fundamental principles of the legislation and focusing more thoroughly on the several selected questions. The thesis itself is divided into four chapters. In my thesis I am trying to point out to the most important court decisions and also the opinions of The Office for Personal Data Protection and The Article 29 Working Party. In the first chapter I deal with the concept of privacy, because I consider it to be a "foundation stone" of the whole issue of personal data protection. This chapter demonstrates how the concept of privacy has developed in the course of time, in the next chapter the legislation of privacy protection and, as well, a conflict with other values are pointed out. In the second chapter I focus on the legislation of privacy and personal data...

Information and Data Protection in Labour Law Relationships The thesis is concerned with the issue of personal data protection in labour-law relationships, as it mainly deals with cases where the employee's right to privacy collides with employer's right to property protection. The aim of the thesis is primarily to give a complex interpretation concerning personal data protection in the context of labour law. Besides, the author attempts to solve some questions whose practical application may cause problems and draws attention to frequent bad habits that happen at workplaces. The thesis consists of four chapters which are further divided into subchapters. In the outset of the thesis the author deals with basic legal framework of privacy protection of an individual, and personal data protection as part of privacy, both in Czech legislation and in the context of international law and European Union law. Next chapters explain selected key terminology that occurs in the Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, the Act No. 101/2000 Coll., on Personal Data Protection and the Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labour Code, and define basic principles that are...

Personal data protection is a very today's topic, which affects every aspect of our public life. With the increasing amount of data one shares in connection to social relationships, there is also an increasing interference in one's private life. Therefore there is an increasing probability that these personal data can be misused. The aim of this essay is to point out the importance of this topic and to explain, how this issue is referred to from the legal point of view. Further and even more to this matter, it will show how the rule of law translates into everyday situations. Based on the factual life experiences, this assignment should serve as a basic guide of helpful advice and suggestions, which one should to a point observe.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of personal data protection, and focuses particularly on the duties of the data controller, which also largely apply to the employer as the controller of the personal data of the employees. The diploma thesis builds primarily on the legal regulation of personal data protection contained in GDPR, while in some sections, a comparison with the previously effective personal data protection legislation is included. The objective of this diploma thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of fundamental personal data protection institutes from the data controller's point of view with a focus on the analysis of some of the obligations which has been newly introduced by GDPR. The diploma thesis is divided into four chapters, which are further divided into a relatively high number of subchapters. The first chapter contains a historical overview of legislation on personal data protection at the international and European (European Union) level as well as national levels. The second chapter defines the fundamental terms related to personal data protection which are used in GDPR, such as personal data, data subject, data controller and processor, recipient of the personal data or personal data processing. The third chapter discusses the fundamental principles relating...

Personal data protection under the law of European Union ABSTRACT The diploma thesis discusses the legal regulation of personal data protection under the European Union law with focus on the rights of data subjects, i.e. natural persons whose personal data are being processed. The aim of the thesis is to compare the current legal regulation of the rights of data subjects (directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data) with the legal regulation with forthcoming effectiveness (GDPR) with focus on the issue how the new legal regulation dealt with the problems for which the Directive has been criticised and how it dealt with problematic parts of the regulation of the rights of data subjects. The diploma thesis consists of five parts including the introduction, the conclusion and three chapters of the own text. The chapter one contains the introduction to the field of personal data protection, including the brief history of the development of personal data protection, and it is further divided into the sub-chapters where the primary and secondary law concerning personal data protection in the European Union and its development are introduced. The human rights context of personal data protection is also discussed in this chapter....

The Blockchain concept was originally developed to provide security in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency network, where trust is achieved through the provision of an agreed-upon and immutable record of transactions between parties. The use of a Blockchain as a secure, publicly distributed ledger is applicable to fields beyond finance, and is an emerging area of research across many other fields in the industry. This thesis considers the feasibility of using a Blockchain to facilitate secured information sharing between parties, where a lack of trust and absence of central control are common characteristics. Implementation of a Blockchain Information Sharing system will be designed on an existing Blockchain network with as a communicative party members sharing secured information. The benefits and risks associated with using a public Blockchain for information sharing will also be discussed. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

With the rapid development of Information Technology, ¡§Cloud Computing¡¨ is becoming increasingly popular in the industry as it is accessible to various data processing services just by connecting to third-party cloud service providers via network. A new global technological trend has thus been ushered as a result of powerful processing, elastic usage and low cost of the cloud computing. Although ¡§Cloud Computing¡¨ provides a cloud which is more large-scaled, relevant and beneficial, most practical cloud patrons are aware that what matters is its corresponding security. Any who has ever used the Internet, whether an enterprise or an individual, will inevitably run the risks of information recorded, copied, leaked, deleted inappropriately or accidently or even used for inappropriate purposes by third-parties. The private data and business secrets of the stakeholders of an enterprise, including its customers, partners, employees or suppliers, will also suffer from the information vulnerability. Therefore, as for the cloud computing industry, what matters for the government, enterprise or individual is to provide an information security shelter rather than a network environment in which the personal data is highly exposed. Cavoukin (2010) argues that the issue of information security related to the cloud computing is one of issues in the public domain. The data generated from the digital cloud computing management and the people involved are so large that each citizen is drawn to be concerned with the government policies and laws (Lee, 2010). In this paper, we make a risk management for the cloud computing and discuss the risk management mechanisms for the cloud computing industry with the Freeman¡¦s stakeholder theory.