CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY: BALANCING SECURITY AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Abstract

This research paper seeks to critically discuss the rather complicated link between cybersecurity and privacy within today’s technological environment. That is why modern people must become more concerned with the question of personal data protection as well as protection of infrastructure connected with constantly developing IT technologies. In the present research, cybersecurity and privacy are considered as two closely intertwined yet opposing concepts, and the paper examines how it is difficult to achieve the balance between them in dealing with the threats of the digital environment. In this paper, which is mainly based on a literature review, case analysis, and the assessment of current tendencies, the author addresses the technological, legal, and ethical aspects of this multifaceted problem. As it has been seen from the findings, this study also entails that there is the need to have a balance within this security aspect of the web by making respect for the privacy acts since there is the need to have equally efficient shields against cyber threats.