JURISPRUDENTIAL APPROACH TO PELLUCID PRIVACY LAWS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Abstract

Confidentiality of data shared by individuals, corporations and government on the Internet has become vulnerable to various cyber security threats. Privacy related legal regimes are under constant consideration in the Parliament of various States to combat issues related to data protection. The jurisprudence of privacy laws encountered significant attraction of philosophers, thinkers, and even political parties since the subject matter reached areas of government record management, health system, educational policies, banking and finance services. In the digital age, attempts have been made to extend the meaning of the term ‘privacy’ to include the right to control flow of digital data/information. Data protection laws can be found under numerous statutory rules and regulations implemented by States around the globe. However, the aim of these legislatively implemented privacy law suffers due to constant technological innovations and authorized government surveillance over digital personal data. It would not be incorrect to state that the trans-global nature of Internet has given rise to problems of ‘privacy’in the information age. United Nations has instructed States to consider existing examples of International approaches to combat issues of data protection through appropriate legislations. In this paper, significant sources of data protection laws suggested/recommended by United Nations member States will be discussed to comprehensively evaluate the success rate of constitutionally implemented privacy laws on the cyberspace.This article makes an attempt to provide prospective jurisprudential approach to make suggestions for shielding digital age human rights and internationally accepted privacy regimes.