La protección de datos personales : estudio comparativo Europa-América con especial análisis de la situación argentina

Abstract

The information technology and communications have proven to be suitable for the processing and treatment of large volumes of information, but the effects of computer and telematics treatment of personal data without control, adversely affecting people's privacy. For this reason, the technology penetration in the lives of people we facing a new ethical and legal problems as the unlimited power of the people can know about both the state and the private sector, accumulate and process personal data for in some cases, an abuse of illegal use and even a social control over human beings.
True, states, institutions and different organizations need contemporary world of modern information technologies and communication networks to acquire, assess and classify the information that allows them to make decisions aimed at the goals and objectives of the general welfare which they were created. But it is also true that these different interconnect technologies allow data files and get them information that traces a detailed profile of the people, which is a tool who has the power to use it, both in the public and private sectors...