Privacy is the right of an individual to a certain degree of anonymity and to know that data about you is not openly or secretly being recorded in an unreasonable manner. Privacy is very important to a democracy and reflects our own individual rights to express our opinions, the right to be able to vote in free elections and among other things to pursue our own life without being told how to live our life. Unfortunately privacy is being eroded with the mass onslaught of electronic information systems.
As corporations and government departments begin to share their data it becomes a more and more significant question as to who has the right to control this data? How much access should each individual have? Ands how do we know that the information being held on us is accurate? And what are the repercussions for us if the information is not accurate.