Week 9: Subject Rights & Fundamental Rights Flashcards
Subject Rights Under GDPR
Right to Be Informed: Transparency in collecting and processing personal data. Inform individuals of their rights and how to exercise them.
Right of Access: Enable individuals to access their personal data.
Right to Rectification: Allow individuals to correct inaccurate information, ensuring changes propagate to other companies.
Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten): Allow individuals to request deletion of their data unless overriding legitimate interests exist.
Right to Restriction of Processing: Let individuals request a halt to data processing without erasing their data.
Right to Data Portability: Enable the export of personal data in a machine-readable and human-readable format.
Right to Object: Individuals can object to the use of their personal data.
Rights Regarding Automated Decision Making: Individuals can opt-out of decisions made solely through automated processing, including profiling.
Censorship Categories
Speaker by a State: The government prevents individuals from expressing something, often through criminalization or technical filtering.
Listener by a State: The government restricts individuals from hearing certain information through legal or technical means.
Speaker by a Private Actor: A person or company prevents someone from expressing something, typically through legal means.
Listener by a Private Actor: A person or company prevents others from accessing certain information.
Justifications for Censorship
The European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10(2), allows lawful censorship under specific conditions. Censorship can sometimes be beneficial, such as protecting minors or regulating harmful content.
Impact of Surveillance
Changes in behaviour and attitudes.
Violation of privacy rights.
Targeted harassment.
Selling and misuse of data.
What is Metadata
Metadata refers to data about data, such as:
Who you contact.
When and how often you contact them.
Patterns that reveal significant information about someone.
