SOSC 4370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Digital Economy, Global Positioning System, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 4370
• Professor: David Szablowski

Document Summary

Protecting privacy rights: access to justice issues in a global digital economy. State of the art in law and society. There is lots of global problems that we address locally. The idea is that 20 years ago, the kinds of privacy problems that we are discussing now, didn"t exist. Today, they are about the dramatic changes that happened to the information technology being shared, via internet, and other forms of technology, and the fact is that the companies that provide this technology and support it, are global players. Despite various debates about globalization, information technology exemplifies these discussions and ideas. Someone was to give a lecture about privacy 25 years ago wouldn"t be talking about information technology. They would talk about privacy rights in terms of women having the right to terminate their pregnancy (reproductive rights) or about sexual orientation more specifically homosexually.