Data Protection, Privacy and Private Life: The Challenging Search of a Needed Global Balance

Abstract

Data protection, as an autonomous fundamental right from the right of a private life, has had an asymmetric development in the different human rights systems. Despite of the rapid evolution of technology, the globalization of the economy and the digitalization of the human relationships, there is not a common level of data protection all around the world. The judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union, that declares invalid the European Commission Decision on the EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement, is just only an example of the different approaches to the subject. This paper aims to contribute to generate some international standards for the protection of personal data.