AdminModel Answers to PYQs (2019-2024)
1] Discuss the importance of personal data protection in the context of human rights. [2019/15m/200w/3c]
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights says that; “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks”.
The advent of the 21st century saw a revolution, an age of information or a data-centric world. This data have the power to run corporates and even states. Personal Data have been used to manipulate people’s choice of clothes to the election of President (Facebook – Cambridge Analytica case)
Although the data help the governments to make better policies for the people, the flip side is that all this personal information can lead to intrusions and interferences with people’s private lives. This can be distressing and damaging for individuals.
Privacy and personal data protection are a challenge in the digital era. In particular, because internet-based communications are notoriously difficult to police. There is a rise of data-hungry applications like search engines, targeted advertising platforms or social networks, and the data is used for various methods of online surveillance by both private and governmental entities. Thus, the alleged borderless nature of digital technology also leads to a complicated set of normative and policy questions
Countries, especially in the developing world, do not have policies for personal data protection as it is a new development. This gives the MNCs an opportunity to exploit the people of these developing countries who have no protection from their states. Data is a useful and powerful tool, the storage and use of personal information should be at the service of people and not their exploitation. [275 words]
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