A tutela jurídico-penal da privacidade na internet.

Abstract

The progress of computer science has provoked great transformations in the society. The people use the computer every day to reach the most varied tasks and its use already if she became essential for the accomplishment of some services. This new reality, of a computerized society, brought deep modifications in the relations human beings. Currently, through the Internet, activities can be practised as purchase and sale of diverse products, banking transactions or instantaneous communication. Innumerable they are the benefits that the Internet originated for the humanity, however some negative consequences of its use had also appeared, such as the cyber crimes. The authors of these delicts use of the easiness that the Internet provides to commit diverse crimes, which can cause enormous damages for its victims. Amongst the delicts committed through the Internet, the ones that they infringe the right to the privacy constitute one of the harmful to the humanity. They are examples of these last ones, the crimes that violate the correspondence electronic of the people. In this manner, It is intended to demonstrate the danger that these delicts generate for the individuals and the necessity of a specific regulation for the subject. The present work is used of the methods deductive and legal-exegetic to analyze the alterations that the internet crimes had produced in the society. The technique of bibliographical research is also employed, that makes possible one better development of the argued subjects. The crimes committed in the cyber environment, especially those that they violate to the privacy of the citizens, must be seen with attention for the society and the Public Power. This last one must contribute for the reduction of the internet delicts through the production of specific norms and of the information to the people.