Data protection in the Internet / Dário Moura Vicente, Sofia de Vasconcelos Casimiro, editors.

Data protection in the Internet / Dário Moura Vicente, Sofia de Vasconcelos Casimiro, editors.

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This book identifies and explains the different national approaches to data protection - the legal regulation of the collection, storage, transmission and use of information concerning identified or identifiable individuals - and determines the extent to which they could be harmonised in the foreseeable future. In recent years, data protection has become a major concern in many countries, as well as at supranational and international levels. In fact, the emergence of computing technologies that allow lower-cost processing of increasing amounts of information, associated with the advent and exponential use of the Internet and other communication networks and the widespread liberalization of the trans-border flow of information have enabled the large-scale collection and processing of personal data, not only for scientific or commercial uses, but also for political uses. A growing number of governmental and private organizations now possess and use data processing in order to determine, predict and influence individual behavior in all fields of human activity. This inevitably entails new risks, from the perspective of individual privacy, but also other fundamental rights, such as the right not to be discriminated against, fair competition between commercial enterprises and the proper functioning of democratic institutions.

Springer,

Vicente, Dário Moura.

Casimiro, Sofia de Vasconcelos.

SpringerLink (Online service)

https://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28049-9

1 online resource (viii, 943 p.) : ill. (some color)

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9783030280482

9783030280499 (electronic bk.)

3030280497 (electronic bk.)

9783030280482

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