Privacidad en la sociedad de la información.

Abstract

The Information Society has had a profound effect on the protection of privacy. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflects the need to protect the individual's private life and correspondence from arbitrary incursions, but at the time it was impossible to foresee how the New Technologies would affect this subject. Over the years, legislators and the courts have had to broaden these concepts to provide —not without certain difficulties- the required protection. Of particular note is the recognizing of the right to informative self-determination, the basis of which is found in German Jurisprudence of the 1980s. Similarly, the double dimension attributed to privacy; the first being the exclusion of third parties from what belongs to and is retained within the sphere of what is intimate (intimacy); the second -dynamic- being the control of personal data by the interested party. In these pages we consider the vulnerability of privacy in the face of technological innovation and the response, generally by the courts, to safeguard the human rights related to it.