| Abstract [eng] |
Fair information practice: criteria and problems Summary This study aims to discuss an individual’s privacy and fair information practice principles as well as try to solve this problem. The paper states that during the last decade of the XX century characteristics of the web-minded and more and more web-involved information individual started to develop. Vulnerability in terms of privacy is one of the most important characteristics of the web-minded individual. States fight privacy violations through legal means, but they are usually insufficient; therefore, it is necessary to seek that the participants of the information field were themselves alert while submitting their personal data and would orient information creators and administrators to other ways of dealing with information. Fair information principles could be compared to the ethics code of participants of the information field. The main fair information practice principles are as follows: notice/awareness, choice/consent, access/participation, integrity/security, and enforcement/redress. Threat to an individual’s privacy by electronic medium has to be reduced following fair information practice principles and viewing their protection as a practical problem, that is searching for consistent implementation means both from the part of creators of the information field and from the part of its users. |
