Transparent person (data protection)

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Representation of the transparent patient at the demonstration freedom instead of fear

The term transparent person is mainly used as a metaphor of data protection , which stands for the negative perception of the complete "screening" of people and their behavior by a monitoring state .

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The term was first used in the discussion of the 1982 Census Act in Germany and has since stood as a symbol for the excessive and overarching collection of personal data from public and private bodies, especially in reserve . The concept has attracted recent attention through the NSA surveillance affair , which was exposed in 2013 by Edward Snowden .

The users of this term refer to the increasing surveillance of people, new technical surveillance methods and the increasing interest of the state in information about its citizens. They fear a complete loss of privacy and the right to informational self-determination and the resulting adaptation of people to the behavior prescribed by the state as conforming to the norm ( opportunism ). This development is also favored by the careless use of the Internet: If a user logs on to several social networks or similar services in the field of social software under the same user name and reveals information about himself, it is soon afterwards using general search engines or People search services make it possible to combine the individual personality aspects into an overall picture.

The term is used in various modified forms: The most common is the term Gläserner Bürger . In connection with the state account inquiry , which was made possible by the Act to Promote Tax Honesty , the term transparent taxpayer or transparent bank customer is used.

In a contrary context, there is also talk of the Transparent MP , which could make political processes more transparent for the voters. The point here is not that the citizen becomes transparent for the state, but that the state becomes transparent for the citizen.

In the meantime, the image of the transparent person is also being applied to the increasing "screening" of people by non-governmental institutions and commercial enterprises: In the health care system there is talk of the transparent patient , trade unions fear the transparent employee or even entire transparent workforces and consumer advocates warn in the discussion about the Consumer data protection from the transparent customer .

The term post-privacy is sometimes used for a state in which there is no longer any privacy and data protection no longer applies .

Another meaning comes from the area of bioethics , in which the transparent human is understood to be the analysis of one's DNA , which provides information about many physical characteristics of a person.

The anatomical human models made of transparent plastic developed by the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden at the end of the 1920s were originally referred to as the Transparent Human .

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  1. ↑ Count v. Westphalen: On the way to becoming a transparent citizen? The 1982 Census Act . In: The New Order 37 (2): 136-142. 1983.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Däubler : Transparent workforces? The manual on employee data protection . 6., extensively revised. and updated edition. Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. 2015. ISBN 978-3-7663-6086-1