"Recent technological advances have greatly enhanced the capacity to monitor and record our movements and activities, to collect, collate and disseminate personal information about us quickly and cheaply, and to probe our minds and our genes in order to discover our physical and psychological strengths and vulnerabilities. As Justice Michael Kirby has noted, the information technology revolution poses a significant challenge to our ability to safeguard personal information: [The] quantity of personal information about individuals as likely to increase rather than decrease. Access to this this information is what occasions the contemporary fragility of privacy – a human attribute that has been steadily eroded over the past century. To the extent that the individual has no control over, and perhaps no knowledge about, the mass of identifiable data which may be accumulated concerning him or her and to the extent that national law-makers, despite their best endeavors, enjoy only limited power effectively to protect the individual in the global web, privacy as a human right, is steadily undermined.1"