2. INTRODUCTION
• IT makes it technically and economically feasible
to collect, store, integrate, interchange and
retrieve data
• Has an important beneficial effect on the
efficiency and effectiveness of computer-based
information system
• The power of IT to store and retrieve information
can have a negative effect on the right to privacy
of every individual
• Example: confidential e-mail messages by
employees are monitored by many companies

3. • Opt-in versus opt-out is a central to the
debate over privacy legislation.
to be compiled about them

4. • Additional privacy issues under debate are
violation of privacy, computer monitoring,
computer matching and unauthorized
personal files
• There are four types privacy issues such as
privacy on the internet, computer matching,
privacy laws and computer libel and
censorship