大數據時代下隱私權之保護──可能之影響暨對策

The Protection of Right to Privacy in Big Data Era: Possible Impacts and Countermeasures

Big data has only recently gone mainstream. Prior to 2012, big data was a buzzword used by engineers and scientists to describe advances in digital communications, computation and data storage. Big data－the enhanced ability to collect store and analyze previously unimaginable quantities in tremendous speed and with negligible costs, deliver immense benefits in policing, national security, healthcare, business and many other critical areas. The big data age has arrived. At the same time, it affects fundamental rights of individual in ways, which are hard to fully oversee. Among these, the right to privacy is surely one of the most endangered. Privacy is an important human value. The advance of technology both threatens personal privacy and provides opportunities to enhance protection. Like other novel technologies, big data presents amazing possibility to usher in a new age of discovery and innovation for mankind. But, it is simply that in everyday life, we expect even in public, certain facts concerning our daily comings and goings will remain private, not because we intend for them to be private, but because we do not except that any one person would be privy to all of our day’s events. Big data does make the protection of right to privacy both considerably more difficult and important. The age of big data is the death or rebirth of privacy? It depends on how to face it. This thesis puts stress on the impacts of big data. And provide the application of due process, especially government obtain information from third parties, health data exceptionalism and the concept of “right to be forgotten”, as the options of countermeasures of protection of right to privacy in big data era.