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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Right to privacy"”.
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Civic Hacking for the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy
… 2010). Crisis events often cause civic hackers to break ethical boundaries and governance structures during crisis events as they attempt to communicate essential information to the public (Crawford and Finn, 2015), raising questions regarding ethical concerns, sustainability of their projects, …
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Mobile Phones Usage to the Right to Privacy to Society in West Urban Region of Zanzibar
Admittedly, the right to privacy is being invaded from the advancement of Information Communication Technology (ICT). The modern mobile phone technology has brought big fear toward the right to privacy in Zanzibar society. Prior to this ever widening telecommunication industry individuals to a …
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Whatever Is Done in Secret: A Christian Moral Analysis of a Right to Privacy for a Digital Age
In this project, the right to privacy is argued to be an inherent aspect of being human, flowing from humanity’s being created in the imago Dei and the corresponding nature of human rights and duties. Chapter 1 situates this project in the larger landscape of the human rights discussion within the …
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A Review of Data Protection Regulations and the Right to Privacy: the case of the US and India
… signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the concept of privacy has grown more complex with the rise of technology and a shift to the internet. In particular, the unregulated use of technologies that can capture individuals' personal data without their knowledge or consent poses a …
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When does the conduct of an employer infringe on an employee's constitutional right to privacy when intercepting or monitoring electronic communications?
… Act 70 of 2002 (RICA) that regulates the monitoring of electronic communications has not yet been tested by our courts. This paper explores the likelihood of an infringement of an employee's right to privacy by an employer in the process of intercepting the latters electronic communications. …
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Does the tax administration act sufficiently protect the taxpayers' right to privacy or provide the taxpayer with a right to be informed?
This dissertation endeavours to establish whether the Tax Administration Act sufficiently protects the taxpayers' constitutional rights to privacy and right to be informed. Specifically it will be investigating these rights versus the powers provided to SARS under the different fiscal statutes to …
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Le droit au respect de la vie privée et la loi sur les services de santé et les services sociaux.
The right to privacy, fondamental right recognized by section 5 of the Charter of human rights and freedoms, is part of the new Healt Act. However, section 433 of this new law is a major exception to that fondamental right. Section 433 enables the minister to obtain nominative informations directly …
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Reforms to the laws on the surveillance of private communications
The right to privacy is central to our constitutional order, which is founded on human dignity. The ability of the State to invade the privacy of our communications threatens the personal space within which we live “our daily lives”. The Constitutional Court in AmaBhungane evaluated the law …
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Constitutional privacy: The evolution of a doctrine
Although the right to privacy is not actually enumerated in the Constitution, over a century of common law precedent and judicial interpretation has authorized certain personal activities as being outside the scope of governmental regulation. The constitutional defense of such freedoms have been …
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An Organizational Ethics Framework to Balance Individual Privacy and Population Interests Regarding Genetic Technologies
<p>The American culture holds the right to privacy as one of the most esteemed rights for individuals. As such, the culture adamantly defends the right to privacy to ensure individuals have the opportunity to live freely. In the American healthcare system, the right to privacy is critical for …
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Image Based Sexual Abuse: The Effectiveness of Malawi s Legal Framework
… violence going beyond the physical and into the digital space. Violence against women which occurs online or with the use of technological means is referred to as technology-facilitated violence, a term which includes a plethora of actions such as harassment and image based sexual abuse. …
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The use of social media sites to obtain information on job applicants in the recruitment process
… of the Republic of South Africa provides for the right to privacy. This constitutional right includes the right not to have one’s person or home searched; one’s property searched, and one’s possessions seized. In addition, the right to privacy includes the right not to have the privacy of …
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All I’m asking for is a little respect: equality rights and same-sex spousal benefits
… against the background of Canada’s equality rights jurisprudence. This, in turn, is examined in light of the right to respect for one's private life, as developed in European human rights jurisprudence, and contrasted with the right to privacy doctrine developed in the United States of …
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Welfare organization: The case of worksite health promotion
"The purpose of this dissertation was to discover the corporate motivation for offering worksite health promotion. Three possible motivations are presented: efficiency (reduction of health care costs), control (monitoring of employees' lifestyle), and demography (aging of the workforce). Data from …
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Cyberspace, surveillance, law and privacy
… cyber surveillance on the exercise of the human right to privacy of communications and data privacy of individuals subject to untargeted interception of digital communications. The principal aim of the thesis is to assess the legality of mass cyber surveillance of the 'Five Eyes' alliance of …
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The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
… the way three media technologies in the history of the United States have been used in relationship to wealth, sexuality, and the emergence of "the right to privacy" in the late 19th century. This includes photography in the First Gilded Age, cable television in the 1970s and the beginnings …
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WwwPrivacygov: A constitutional and legislative review
One of the most controversial and evolving rights recognized within recent years has been the right to privacy. During the twentieth century, the Supreme Court and the United States Congress recognized the existence of this right, although in limited aspects. In the twenty-first century, Americans' …
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Privacy rights in employment
This thesis undertakes to research the development of domestic legal protection for privacy rights within employment. Unusually for a current work, it does this by returning to the genesis of the protections. The work challenges pervasive arguments that the notion of confidence did not protect …
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Just say no to 'just say no' : tensions in organizational approaches to youth and online privacy in the Americas
… practices in the field of youth online privacy in the Americas. I describe harms created by protective, universalist, individualistic approaches that pose youth as conditional citizens, and make a case for approaches based instead on youth agency, intersectional views of privacy, …
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