The Internet presents significant new challenges for protecting the right to privacy. The most important
ones are summarized as follows.

Results in the collection of new types of personal information. The recent improvements in
science made the usage of finger and iris-scanning technologies very popular. They may be used
to secure identification to prevent fraud by retailers, to identify voters in election, however, such
question may arise who will control storage and usage of such a huge data.

Simplifies the collection of location of personal information; for instance, each device has a
unique IP address while connecting to the Internet, therefore, it is not difficult to trace them.
• Introduces new capacities for government and private actors to analyse personal information;
Since the advances in processor technology and cloud, it is not difficult to use vast quantities of
information compared to past. Once the information is collected, for instance, by using finger
and iris-scanning technologies, it can be cheaply and efficiently stored, consolidated and analysed.
• Introduces new opportunities for commercial use of personal information. There exists numerous
services provided by these companies are free and their business models rely on collecting
user information, and, then, using it for marketing purposes.