How data privacy laws balance privacy rights with data collection

Data privacy laws provide a legal framework for obtaining, using, and storing natural persons' data. These lessons answer how privacy rights relate to the collection of personal data. They consider how legal protections shape the handling of information by governments and organizations.

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   data privacy laws · Wikipedia · 23 min read

   The 1973 HEW advisory report proposes that data should be deleted when it is no longer needed for the stated purpose. In European data privacy law, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence", subject to certain restrictions. The European Court of Human Rights has given Article 8 a very broad interpretation in its jurisprudence. The law requires government and private organizations with at least 250 employees or access to the personal and identifiable information of at least 1000 people to appoint a Data Protection Officer. The officer would assist in regulating the management of personal information in those entities.

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   Up to Date with the EU on Data Protection: Canvassing Implications for the US · Just Security · 4 min read

   The current EU proposal aims to alter the 1995 EU Privacy Directive, criticized as out of date due to rapid technological development and a massive increase in online use of privacy information. The proposal also reflects the need to increase privacy protection for individuals.

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   The Age of Surveillance Capitalism · Bookshop.org

   The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff says surveillance capitalism "unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material" for behavioral data and prediction products. Platforms and tech companies also claim ownership of private information.

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