“…1 The UN Human Rights Committee General Comment 16 on Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (The right to respect of privacy, family, home and correspondence, and protection of honour and reputation) 1988. Retrieved June 21, 2016, from http://ccprcentre.org/doc/ICCPR/General%20Comments/HRI.GEN.1.Rev.9%28Vol.I%29_%28GC16%29_en.pdf Recent advances in computer technology and e-government have provided almost instantaneous transmission of personal data (Huie, Laribee & Hogan, 2002, Graham, Gooden & Martin, 2016 and caused an increased collection and exchange of such data (Stoica & Safta, 2015, Gang-Hoon, Trimi & Ji-Hyong 2014). Consequently, technology still is, and will continue to be, the preeminent driving force behind legal developments in the field of data privacy (Kuner, Cate, Millard & Svantesson, 2014;Schoch, 2016;Zharova, 2016).…”