FROM THE RIGHT TO BE LET ALONE TO THE CONTROL OF PERSONAL DATA

The theme of this paper is the paradigm shift in the outlook of workers' privacy protection. The focus of this work is the successive and recent evolution of this theme, defending an active approach to privacy, per which the workers have an effective control over their personal data. The adopted methodology is based on the theoretical framework of the worker’s right to privacy and its adaptation to the current technological world. It includes the study of the legislation, doctrinal and jurisprudential positions, and guidelines from various bodies and entities. The conclusions summarize the new challenges faced by the labour jurist, in an era when NICT (new information and communication technologies) are part of the corporate environment, in order to find ways to raise awareness about the reaffirmation of limits and control of technology, as the only way to guarantee the safeguarding of the workers' fundamental rights, which are undoubtedly essential for defending the worker in a potentially absorbing context outside his domain, being subject to corporate power. The conciliation between the defense of workers' privacy, on the one hand, and business interests and rights, on the other hand, is the reference for balanceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Individual Rights, Hot Off the Press Versus the Right to be Let Alone, ERA: What We Have in Common

It\u27s no accident that we have aligned articles about freedom of the press, the right of privacy, and the Equal Rights Amendment. They have a common grounding in the nation\u27s unceasing task of defining, protecting and expanding individual rights, as society itself changes in its perception of these rights. In this VOTER, we report developments on all three. The first two have been undergoing testing and redefinition from the days of our country\u27s beginnings. Hot Off the Press offers some first-round reactions to S.1, the proposed act that would totally rewrite the federal criminal code. In almost casual fashion, it would also, according to its critics, rewrite the basic free-press protections enunciated in the First Amendment. ... Versus the Right To Be Let Alone describes the tension between the reporter\u27s right to tell and the private citizen\u27s Fourth Amendment right not to have it told to the whole world via the press--one important dimension of the right of privacy. This time the vehicle for change has been a new court decision in the case of a private citizen-lawyer for unpopular causes-who successfully sued the John Birch Society for its labeling him a Communist in its magazine. Private citizens have applauded his victory; reporters see themselves hamstrung in doing their job. So ... two avenues for probing the limits of individual rights are represented: Congress and the courts. The ERA calls into playa third course: the constitutional amendment. It is a route this nation has often chosen for broadening its protection of individual rights by making ever clearer the scope of that powerful phrase, All men . . .

Care And Feeding Of Privacy Policies And Keeping The Big Data Monster At Bay: Legal Concerns In Healthcare In The Age Of The Internet Of Things

Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken for the protection of the person, and for securing to the individual . . . the right to be let alone. .