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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"the right to privacy"”.
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Civic Hacking for the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy
The involvement of civic hackers in national and international crisis mitigation efforts as digital first responders has been widely discussed (Palen et al., 2010). Crisis events often cause civic hackers to break ethical boundaries and governance structures during crisis events as they attempt to …
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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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A Review of Data Protection Regulations and the Right to Privacy: the case of the US and India
<p>Since 1948 and the 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 …
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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
The prevalence of technology and social media has resulted in gender-based 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 …
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All I’m asking for is a little respect: equality rights and same-sex spousal benefits
This thesis explores same-sex spousal benefits claims 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 …
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The use of social media sites to obtain information on job applicants in the recruitment process
The Constitution 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 …
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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?
The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information 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 …
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The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
This thesis broadly interrogates 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 …
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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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Criminalising cannabis in South Africa: a history and post-Prince discussion
This thesis circles around the history of the criminalisation of cannabis as well as its decriminalisation around 100 years later. While dagga was cultivated and used by the indigenous tribes long before the first settlers arrived and even remained a legal substance during the colonial period, with …
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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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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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An Investigation into the Current Practices of Group Counseling Instructors in the Delivery of the Required Experiential Group in Accredited Institutions
This study was designed to determine the diverse practices of group counseling instructors in the delivery of the required experiential group. A small group experience (experiential group) is required of all counseling students in accredited institutions. The accreditation body for counseling …
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The constitutional case for legal regulation of illicit drugs in South Africa
The principal argument of this paper is that South Africa's current drug policy is unsound and unconstitutional. The legislative and policy framework is based on the prohibition of certain psychoactive substances deemed illicit and the criminalisation of their production, distribution and use, to …
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An analysis of the current framework for the exchange of taxpayer information, with special reference to the taxpayer in South Africa's constitutional rights to privacy and just administrative action
… transparency has gained momentum over the past few years, especially in the light of the G20 led Base Erosion and Profit Shifting ('BEPS') Project. Ensuring that the fundamental rights of the taxpayer, guaranteed by the Constitution1, remain protected amidst the hurried implementation …
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Data Protection Legal Reforms in Africa
… an international legal comparative approach. The research uses Tanzania and Senegal as the primary case studies and France, the United Kingdom and Germany as secondary case studies to illustrate how Europe reformed data protection regimes through the transposition of the EU Data Protection …
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