Cultural Recommendations

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People's privacy is a key principle in the digital age to preserve other fundamental rights of citizens and must be protected as one of the guarantees that enable a democratic state based on the rule of law, individual freedom and, ultimately, growth as a human being. Protecting citizens' privacy is protecting their freedom, autonomy and dignity.

The cultural world has reflected on numerous occasions the risks of the lack of privacy which, from the individual point of view, can lead to the loss of their physical and mental integrity, their freedom of expression or thought, their dignity or their trust in institutions and, as a society, can imply a drift towards scenarios in which citizens see their rights and freedoms diminished.

Certain works, with different formats and at different historical moments, have conveyed the importance of data protection in our lives and the impact that its lack of application could cause.

The Agency will periodically provide references in this blog to cultural elements that have stood out in its analysis of privacy from different points of view. These will be novels, essays, cinematographic works and other audiovisual creations whose subject matter delves into the rights and freedoms of individuals, understanding that this reference mainly concerns the rights to data protection and privacy.

Finally, it should be noted that these cultural references will in many cases cover other aspects of people's rights and freedoms that go beyond the protection of personal data and that exemplify that privacy is an important element to take into account, but not the only one, in the framework of a complex society.