الضوابط القانونية لمعالجة البيانات الشخصية إلكترونيا

الملخص EN

Today, Information became the basis for the knowledge economy in the digital world, especially after the emergence of the Internet.

In view of the increase and enlargement of data in various sectors, it has become necessary to deal with in a more organized way, after which a new science emerged, "data science", where data, whatever their source, are subject to a set of automatic processes such as collection, registration, organization, preservation, access, Use, publication, transmission, even destruction, and other operations.

However, storing data in the digital world may expose it to unlawful use, and may harm its owner, which necessitated the establishment of specific legal controls for its use and certain provisions regulating the operations that are subject to, which provides it with an aspect of privacy.

Within this framework, several laws appeared in Algeria dealing with automatic data processing, the most important are: Law No.

07-18 related o physical person's protection in the field of personal data possessing.

The most important results of this study is that the treatment process is considered one of the most dangerous electronic operations that can affect personal data, because it lead to unlawful use of this data, and thus attacking the right of privacy.

That's why the legislator gave the person concerned by the treatment process, a set of rights as a guarantee of his partial control, without allowing the person in charge of treatment to deal with alone, he obliged him also to a set of obligations.

In addition to the difference between the concepts of data and information, because data is considered as the raw source of information.