Privacy of Personal Data

Abstract

The Protection of Personal Data has its beginnings in the year 1980, through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in the search to guarantee the fundamental human right of privacy. The standards have been set to establish a balance between the level of protection of the privacy of individuals and the free transmission of personal data in systems and applications of services, several studies of the limits have been created in which there is a personal data It must be stored and treated by a third party. Financial institutions, governments and services that require a high level of protection in their transactions, handling of confidential information, credit card data, customer information, among other things. The use of information technologies in general our environment requires that you deposit large amounts of information and personal data, that can store or transmit in an inappropriate manner, expose the privacy of a person, as well as compromise their integrity and financial reputation and even physics. The consent on the part of the people, for the treatment of their data, is the fundamental principle that leads the norms, directives and values that have been developed at a global level.The boundaries and borders of nations also have an impact on the extent to which personal data, a clear example in the European Union, where companies that use data from citizens of this community, but deliver their services outside of this, they are bound to these personal data in the same guidelines that define the European Union and its territory. Similarly, in Mexico there is a Federal Law on Data Protection in the Position of Individuals, regulating legitimate, controlled and informed treatment, guaranteeing privacy and the right to information self-determination of people.