TY - JOUR T1 - DATA PROTECTION AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE COMPUTER AGE – THROUGH LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THROUGH EDUCATION? AU - Cvetkovski, Andrej PY - 2021 DA - December JF - IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education JO - IJAEDU PB - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research WT - DergiPark SN - 2411-1821 SP - 207 EP - 211 VL - 7 IS - 21 LA - en AB - In the age of rising power of the electronic information and communication technology, processes of data aggregation and concentration about people are inevitable. Humans are slowly but surely losing control over computers and similar "thinking", artificially intelligent machines. Wherever centralized information systems for personal data are established, there are centers of strong control over life and activities of everyone. The bureaucrats and technocrats are thrilled by such possibilities. In the data centers they see new automated management tools and require detailed data collection for every human activity, however insignificant. The humanists, on the other hand, are distrustful of that novel management trend. They see it as a means of enslaving the humans.In this paper we analyze the growing dangers of the growing capabilities for storage and processing of personal data in the triangle consisting of the technological developments, the drafting of data protection laws and the citizens. We argue that, in the long run, the only way out of potential abuse of the right to privacy as a human right is not through new data protection laws, supervisory instances, data policing and enforcement, but through education of all players in that triangle on all aspects of data protection and the right to privacy in the computer age. KW - Privacy KW - Data Protection Law KW - Politics and Ethics CR - General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679. CR - Law on Personal Data Protection, Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia, No. 42/2020. CR - Paul, Richard; Elder, Linda, The Miniature Guide to Understanding the Foundations of Ethical Reasoning. United States: Foundation for Critical Thinking Free Press, 2006. CR - Ford, Gerald R., Remarks of Vice President Gerald R. Ford at the American Medical Association Convention, Chicago Illinois, June 1974. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijaedu/article/1017142 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2055961 ER -