Privacy Right is basically the state where a person is not watched or disturbed by other people or anything. People needs a privacy protection where ever there are. We can say that every country in the world has a privacy protection for the people; but how protected the people is the question that always came up in our minds. Do you know that Malaysia has a poor Privacy Protection? Some of you might be surprised, but that is the truth when it is proved by the Privacy International.
In the International Privacy Ranking released on 28 December last year, Malaysia shared the last spot with China and Russia and categorized as “endemic surveillance societies”. This position (at an index of 1.3) is also shared with the Philippines, the US, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore - SOURCE: http://www.bangkit.net/2008/01/17/poor-privacy-protection-in-malaysia-says-privacy-international/
In my perspective, the poor ranking for Malaysia might be due to the rights given to police in order to search and investigate some particular cases without a warrant. However, the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in many places also one of the factor which made individuals or societies has no privacy. Although the use of CCTV is aimed to reduce crimes in Malaysia, but up till now crimes are never reduced but it is increasing. In other words, the use of CCTV is not really effective in Malaysia.
On the other hand, the capabilities of MyKad to hold personal details and bank information is another factor we are loosing our privacy.
Lets view the three components of Privacy Right which might help us to understand more about this issue:
- SECRECY - Information known about individual
- ANONYMITY - Attention paid to an individual
- SOLITUDE - Physical access to an individual
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