THE RISK OF PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA – PART 1

1.      The key changes in the information society is the breakthroughs in information processing, storage and transmission which have led to the application of information technologies in virtually all corners of society and the convergence and imbrications of telecommunications and computing (Webster 2006).

2.      Indeed the information society has changed radically with the integrated network structure, which has transformed the communications networks into seamless global webs of digital information exchange, and the resultant globalisation of financial markets and consequent interdependence of capital flows between liberal market economies (Marsden 2001).

3.      At this juncture, Walker, Wall and Akdeniz (2000) argue that the ICTs conduces towards networked and horizontal relationships and global in its nature.

4.      In the Malaysia context, the ICTs is perceives as the vehicle for Malaysia to attain its vision 2020 and a strategic enabler in moving Malaysia towards Knowledge Society and Knowledge Economy (Tengku Mohd Azman Shariffadeen 2004). 

5.      Accordingly, the personal data can now be shared across countries and continents literally by pressing a key as the rapid development in security of global electronic communication systems (Ahmad 2006), the speed, capacity, versatility and flexibility of computers facilitated the maintenance and growth of extensive record systems, making data accessible from distant points and transferable on a scale hardly conceivable for manual records (Abu Bakar Munir).

6.      Ulrich Beck (1992) suggests that in advanced modernity the social production of wealth is systematically accompanied by the social production of risks.

7.      Giddens (1994) describes the modern risks which are the product of human activity as the manufactured risks.

8.      Indeed, the manufactured risks do exist as the result of the processing of personal data.

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