Article 7 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights provides for the respect of an individual’s private life, including communications. P. De Hert and S. Gutwirth’s “Privacy, data protection, and law enforcement. In such a context, data protection seems to assume an administrative role,” De Hert and Gutwirth elaborate. As Y. McDermott notes in “Conceptualising the right to data protection in an era of Big Data”, privacy, itself a fundamental right, is a value that the right to data protection seeks to protect. The fourth principle concerns accuracy, and therefore, personal data should be both accurate and where necessary, kept updated, while erasing or correcting without delay personal data that are inaccurate.

Source: The Nation July 06, 2021 17:26 UTC