Els C, Verschoor T, Oosthuizen H
Department of Psychiatry, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
S Afr Med J. 1995 Aug;85(8):773-5.
Personal data and privacy are increasingly being threatened by a boom in technological development--the replacement of conventional networks of communication with the perfected combination of computer and telecommunications. The subsequent high degree of transparency has the potential to damage the individual's right to 'informational self-determination'. The most common ways of unlawfully entering a computer data system, the reasons why an individual's information is treated as confidential and the ethical issues involved, international and local statutory instruments that protect such personal information, and ways to stop the outflow of personal information are discussed.
个人数据和隐私正日益受到技术发展热潮的威胁——计算机与电信的完美结合取代了传统通信网络。随之而来的高度透明度有可能损害个人的“信息自决权”。本文讨论了非法进入计算机数据系统的最常见方式、个人信息被视为机密的原因及相关伦理问题、保护此类个人信息的国际和地方法规以及阻止个人信息外流的方法。
