Has the Public Official an Obligation to Restrict His Friendships?: The Right to Privacy vs. the Public Interest

1961 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Dexter
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Official ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right

The Right to Anonymity in Political Activities

2013 ◽  
pp. 202-220
Author(s):  
Knut Fournier
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Value

The complexity of the right to privacy is particularly striking when the issues at stake are, ultimately, other political rights and freedoms such as the right to free speech and the right of association. The surveillance of individuals and groups by the state has strong political consequences: the surveillance of political activities re-defines what the private sphere is, and displaces its limits, in a context in which more information is becoming available to the public. Multiple recent developments, exemplified by the role of the right to privacy in movies, exacerbated the tensions between Europe and the United States over the notion of privacy. The future EU data protection laws will create a right to be forgotten, whose political value is still unknown.

scholarly journals Public Interest and Privacy: the Right to Privacy in the Cover-age of Events by the Mass Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Elena Anatolyevna Kirillova ◽  
Varvara Vladimirovna Bogdan ◽  
Elena Stepanovna Ustinovich ◽  
Yuliya Olegovna Pronina ◽  
Olga Aleksandrovna Kovaleva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Social Tasks ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
The Right

The article deals with the problems related to the balance between private and public interests when covering events by the mass media. One of the most important social tasks is coordinating various interests, reaching a compromise, and ensuring social harmony and partnership. The purpose of the present study consists in analyzing the right to privacy when covering events by the mass media and identifying specifics of private and public interests. The research is based on the observation method that allowed obtaining a specific factual material. Monitoring was carried out according to the developed plan involving the allocation of specific monitoring objects and stages. The study offers the authors’ definitions of private and public interests, highlights the main features of public interest, as well as identifies the distinctive features of private and public interests. On the basis of the conducted analysis it is proposed to introduce the Concept of privacy (the right to be left alone), excluding cases where the right to privacy can be violated and where the information related to the privacy of a person can be disseminated without the consent of the person. This proposal is practical in nature and will allow the mass media to specificate the notion of the right to privacy. 

Statistical confidentiality as an element of the protection of the constitutional right to privacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Piotr Zapadka
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Protective Measure ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Statistical Surveys ◽  
The Right

The confidentiality of statistical data, one of the areas of classified data, is a part of the institutional legal framework designed as a coherent safeguard of natural persons’ right to privacy, at the same time recognising the fact that collecting statistical data for public statistics satisfies an important public need. Therefore it is necessary to reach a sensible compromise between justified public interest and private interest. The article analyses selected aspects of statistical confidentiality regarded as a tool for the execution of the constitutional duty to protect the identity of persons participating in statistical surveys. The aim of this paper is to define the extent to which the process of collecting and storing data, provided for by the law on public statistics, constituties a justified and lawful interference with the constitutional rights and freedoms of natural persons. The analysis of the Polish and foreign regulations pertaining to this matter indicates that statistical confidentiality serves as a protective measure for the right to privacy for natural persons, guaranteed by Art. 47 of the Polish Constitution.

WHEN DOES PUBLIC INTEREST JUSTIFY GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND SURVEILLANCE?

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Leah Angela Robis
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
District Court ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Government Interference ◽  
The Right ◽  
Societal Attitude

This article examines the 16 December 2013 opinion of the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Klayman v Obama which intimated that the objective of the PRISM project, that is, the collection of metadata, violates the right to privacy. It assesses whether this opinion finds support in US federal laws, international law and the municipal laws of Hong Kong by surveying recent developments in balancing the conflict between public interest and the right to privacy. Societal attitude towards privacy is likewise accorded weight. The article concludes with the observation that while a handful of municipal legislation contains public interest exceptions to the right to privacy, there is an increasing clamour in international law to protect such right.

scholarly journals THE PUBLIC FIGURE DOCTRINE AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-99
Author(s):  
Kirsty Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Right ◽  
Normative Justification ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article argues that the public figure doctrine is doctrinally problematic and conceptually and normatively flawed. Doctrinal uncertainty surrounds who is affected and how rights are affected. Conceptually it raises challenges for universality, the non-hierarchical relationship between Articles 8 and 10 ECHR, the process of resolving rights conflicts, and the relationship between domestic law and the Convention. All of which necessitate a strong normative justification for the distinction. Yet there is no compelling rationale. The values underpinning the right to privacy of public figures are no different from those of other persons and there are other better mechanisms of accounting for freedom of expression. We should therefore reject the idea that public figures have fewer or weaker privacy rights or that the process of dealing with their rights is different and instead focus squarely upon the relative importance of the rights, and the degree of intrusion into those rights.

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