When data controllers obtain/disclose information/personal data, in
most cases they accept certain legal liabilities.
When individuals
consider obtaining or disclosing information/personal data certain
moral/ethical and psychological effects come into play.
The data
protection legal framework seems to leave sufficient flexibility for
nation states to utilise their individual legal systems/processes for
enforcing responsibilities/liabilities, or encouraging considered
responsibility, or not, as the case may be.
EU member states differ in
both their legal and moral/ethical systems, directing regulators
towards a common system of principled guidance which has then been
bastardised as perceived as necessary (or deemed desirable) by member
states to fit within national systems. (This affect is visible more
widely when interpretation and implementation of the OECD principles
are considered.)
Over the years it has increasingly become more
publicly noticeable that the processes mentioned at the beginning of
this post are both taking responsibility for use/disclosure and denying
responsibility and liability for the outcomes of use/disclosure.
Do
members of the list see this observation as resistance to perceived
externally imposed requirements, or cultural changes caused by the use
of information technology internationally which is playing upon
existing character traits within humanity?
The purpose of my
question relates to identifying if/how this apparent reversal of
polarity within the wider communities is being utilised or dealt with,
so a third option which exists; that a higher level of consciousness
within the media and public arena is more generally raising awareness,
is being deliberately ignored as an external political play, and hence
merely a distraction.
Putting that question in a more open form...
What do practioners perceived as the cause(s)?
Ian W
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