The right to privacy and the right to access information in the modern information society

Abstract

The complexity of the social changes that have affected modern society is primarily manifested in the frequent use of terms such as information, information security, personal data, right to privacy, information society and digital economy. Numerous articles, analysis and the research are dealing with this issue. The starting point of research in this article presents the concept of information, personal data, privacy and information security. In authors opinion defining privacy or the ways of infringing into the rights of person (individual) and personality (individuality) sets the basis for the protection of personal data as well as setting up an adequate framework of rights to access information as the foundation of modern information society.

Keywords

• right to privacy
• right to access informationa
• personal data
• information society