Information Technology Reference
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Conclusion
The rate of recent growth and development of ICTs results in the breakdown of a
system dominated by a normative approach and normative barriers. This development
has simultaneously discarded the myth of technology neutral law, as it is obvious that
the regulator has always a particular technology in mind as well as a specific cultural
understanding of the world and how technology will work in this world.
Protection of privacy must be achieved through rather than despite technology
[10]. The transposition of legal demands into technical standards is a first condition
for successful privacy protection [9]. However abandoning the law and the protection
to technology is no less dangerous, as experts and market driven forces lack the de-
mocratic legitimization to define and enforce privacy interests and rights. Technology
and law must be the fruit of interaction between regulator, technologists and users.
The future of privacy on electronic communications is destined to be a mix of regula-
tion, specified privacy policies and user empowerment through user-friendly
PETs [1].
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