Protection of data of a personal nature in the Algerien legislation

Abstract

The great use of information technologies through computers as a means of modern technology in collecting, storing and processing personal data for different purposes, it has rapidly demonstrated a sense of information technology risks and threats to privacy because of the actual cases of illegal use of personal data. The establishment of automated information systems by the state and its agencies and the private sector is not absolute and without control.

Comparative legislations described a set of regulations and guarantees aims an effective control of how personal data is used for individuals whose personal data is being processed.

The Algerian legislator, and after he recognized the privacy in its physical aspect (housing inviolability ...), is going along with modern legislation in recognizing privacy in its moral aspect by regulating and protecting the right to control personal data by law 18/07 related to protecting normal peoplein the field of personal data processing.

This study to examine these law textsto determine to whatextent of it iseffective in filling the legislative gapwhen the traditional texts failed to protect information privacy.