HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE RIGHT PRIVACY

摘要

Individuals place a great deal of importance on the notion or essence of individual privacy. There is an inherent right of the individual to protect one's personal and private thoughts and actions. What an individual considers to be private is a question of interpretation. There is also a very real link between the need for privacy and the connection to dignity as human beings.The need to protect this right is something that is becoming increasingly important and increasingly difficult within the digital age. The difficulty comes in the fact that much of our protected privacy is now within the digital sphere, making the protection from surveillance and intrusion from the state and private communications companies much harder to regulate.