Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran
3 Department of private law, faculty of law, Mazandaran University, Mazandaran Province Babolsar City
Abstract
Privacy protection related to metadata is one of the important concerns of data subjects, which requires legal protection. In today's societies where privacy of individuals is closely related to the issue of information technology, especially data, privacy protection of individuals is doubly important. The research method in this article is analytical-comparative. The findings show that the European Union, in particular, by adopting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), by adopting three service-oriented, data-oriented and value-oriented approaches, and considering the principles governing these approaches such as the principle of transparency, the principle of least access, and the governance of metadata, has sought to legalize the field of metadata and regulate the position of privacy, while domestic laws regarding metadata and privacy, other than a directive, which was enacted with a service-oriented approach, lack a specific and comprehensive law in this field. Therefore, the adoption of a specific and comprehensive law using; The aforementioned approaches are proposed in European Union law, especially the General Data Protection Regulation, and the principles governing these approaches, which include the rights of data subjects.
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