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28 June 2008, 16:39Moscow Bishops' Council against total control
Moscow, June 28, Interfax - The Bishops' Council considers it unacceptable to intrude in private life when collecting personal data.
"Following the concerns of certain believers, the Council believes that protection of human freedom suggests that a person should know when he is subjected to identification, what personal data the state collects, registers and uses," the decision of the Council held these days in Moscow reads.
Its participants consider "unacceptable such means and methods of electronic record of people's location and actions that would intrude in their private life and make it possible to totally control and command a person."
The Orthodox human rights concept, which the Council adopted the day before, notes that private life, world outlook and personal will shouldn't be "subjected to total control."
"The society is in danger of manipulations with people's choice and minds undertaken by authoritative bodies, political forces, economical and informational elites. Collection, concentration and use of information on any aspect of personal life are inadmissible without person's consent. In cases when it is required to defend the Motherland, to preserve morality, to promote health, to protect rights and legitimate interests of citizens as well as to prevent or detect a crime and to deliver justice, personal data can be collected without person's consent," the human rights concept reads. |
