The Guarantee of Privacy in a Technological Society: Imperative Towards the Concretization of the Principle of Human Dignity

Abstract

In the universe of technologically advanced societies, the respect for privacy as a fundamental right presents an increasingly urgent requirement, since the right to privacy, in the current system of fundamental rights, is essential to human dignity. It is urgent, in this context, to inquire about the construction of a new constitutionalism of the electronic space in which privacy protection will constitute an essential right in the consolidation of social identity, and therefore, social dignity. Technology, in spite of allowing the construction of a more diversified private sphere, paradoxically becomes more vulnerable when its exposure becomes constant. That seems to justify the growing need for a further strengthening of the legal protection of privacy so that the Principle of Human seek a new valuation of human, social and juristic scientific and technological innovations used by public and private institutions, having as imperative the equal social dignity. This essay will seek new human, social and juridical values in the field of scientific and technological innovations, as they are used by public and private institutions, in order to demonstrate that the silent violation in the sphere of privacy of individuals expropriates them out of their construction space of identity and hence of the dignity value they deserve. Dignity is effectively implemented. The primary objective of this research is to