The human right to privacy Legal privacy and the attention of others Invading peoples intimacy European court of Human rights The umbrella right to privacy Violating peoples intimacy: Paparazzi
Human rights and obligations
Privacy is a fundamental human right. It underpins human dignity and other values such as freedom of association and freedom of speech. It has become one of the most important human rights of the modern age.
The human right to privacy
Our law of privacy
attempts to preserve individuality by placing sanctions upon outrageous or unreasonable violations of its sustenance. This, then, is the social value served by the law of privacy, and it is served not only in the law of tort, but in numerous other areas of the law as well.
Legal privacy and the attention of
others
The right to be let alone
was never imagined to be a normative directive to leave individuals totally alone. It articulates a value in leaving people alone, in certain kinds of ways, and in limited contexts. Exactly what these kinds of ways that people are entitled to be left alone are, or what precisely the contexts in which this entitlement holds, are the subject of great moral, legal, and constitutional controversy.
Invading peoples intimacy
It's bad enough when one person violates your privacy, but it's much worse when a whole group of strangers is collectively involved in the violation
European court of Human rights
The Convention for the
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, also known as the European Convention on Human Rights, was adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe in 1950 to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The umbrella right to privacy
The umbrella "right to privacy" extends, no doubt, to other claims besides the claims not to be watched, listened to, or reported upon without leave, and not to have public attention focused upon one uninvited. It deals, therefore, with a cluster of immunities which, if acknowledged, curb the freedom of others to do things that are generally quite innocent if done to objects other than persons, and even to persons, if done with their permission
Violating peoples intimacy:
Paparazzi Paparazzi is a plural term (paparazzo is the singular form) for photographers who take candid photographs of celebrities, usually by relentlessly shadowing them in their public and private activities. The term paparazzi is often used in a derogatory manner. Originally, it referred to Italian celebrity photographers who learned that a picture of a movie star throwing a punch was more valuable than pictures of stars smiling (celebrity tantrums are a common entertainment story in the mass media).