Privacy and personal data protection

Privacy is threatened every day by the intensive use of information and communication technologies, as well as by the development of the Web 2.0 and of the Cloud Computing.

The right to privacy implies the protection of one’s private realms, including that of the family life, friendships, domicile, correspondence, and location.

Monitoring via the use of surveillance cameras or geo-localisation is conducted for safety reasons. Employers exert a hierarchical control on their personnel. This control implies, more often than not, a monitoring of the performance and general behaviour of the worker.

I help clients plan and organize such monitoring so that it respects one’s right to privacy.

The right to privacy includes the protection of one’s personal data such as name, address, political opinions, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnical origin, medical data, judicial data, etc.

The processing of personal data can be very useful as it contributes to offering services and goods which correspond to consumers’ needs and wants; enriching the experience of a website’s visitor; creating a database of a business’s clients; etc.

This processing may be allowed as long as strict conditions – that we can examine together – are fulfilled.

Another aspect of the right to privacy is the right to control information about oneself (image, reputation, honour)

Some of my clients are offended by the circulation of pictures that represent them on the internet.

An example of this may be when someone takes something you have written out of its initial context, giving it a meaning that is radically different from what your initial position. Another example is when one falls victim to harassment on and off the web.

I can help you put an end to such offences, including defamation and calumny, which affect your honour, image or reputation.