Abstract This article examines the human dignity defined in Convention 108+ and, from a Japanese perspective, explores possibility of universal philosophy data protection. The recent resources scandal (the Rikunabi case) Japan has made stakeholders to realise importance basic declared ‘human dignity’ prohibit an instrumental treatment individuals processing personal data, and thereby, positive ...

This paper is about a situation that perhaps represents one of the most radical and profound challenges to the reality of the consensus that contemporaneous western societies – and Brazilian society in particular – claim they share regarding the equality and essential or ontological dignity of mankind. It is an attempt to investigate how Brazilian society, immersed in a context of fear as a res...