scholarly journals ADMISSIBILITY OF PROVIDING INFORMATION CONSTITUTING MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
A.A. Serebryakov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Health It ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Medical Confidentiality ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Consequences

The article is devoted to this type of confidential information about a citizen, as information constitutinga medical secret. The legal regime of medical confidentiality is considered in the context of its relationshipwith personal secrecy and the right to privacy. The author concludes that initially information about thehealth of a citizen is protected under the regime of personal secrets. Herewith, the regime of medicalconfidentiality is called upon to provide additional guarantees to ensure the citizen’s right to confidentialinformation regarding his health. It has been established that restrictions on a citizen’s right to privacy andpersonal secrecy may arise from the characteristics of the legal regime of other types of secrets. Thus, theconsolidation in Russian law of the grounds for providing information constituting medical confidentiality tothird parties without the consent of a citizen by their nature and legal consequences limits the citizen’s rightsto privacy. At the same time, such restrictions can be justified if they are designed to ensure the protection ofpublic interests. On the example of road safety, the shortcomings of the existing legal regulation are shown.

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 The Right to Privacy and Private Detective Activities in Lithuania

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Mindaugas Bilius
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Private Detective ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACT Private detectives have been providing their services in Lithuania for about a decade; however, only now has the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania started to discuss whether it is expedient and necessary to regulate the activities of private detectives by means of a separate law. One of the goals of a separate legal regulation of private detective activities is the protection of human rights, particularly the right to privacy. This article examines the provisions of national and international legislative acts related to the private life of a person, and assesses the opportunities of a private detective to provide private detective services without prejudice to the provisions of applicable legislative acts. The article concludes that a private detective is not an authorized (public) authority and there is no possibility to assess in each case whether the interests of a person using the services of private detectives are more important than those of other persons, which would allow for violating their rights to private life. The limits of an individual’s right to privacy can only be narrowed by a particular person, giving consent to making public the details of his/her private life. It is the only opportunity for a private detective to gather information related to the private life of a citizen. Currently applicable legislative acts in Lithuania do not provide for opportunities for private subjects to collect personal data without that person’s consent. This right is granted only to public authorities and with the court’s permission

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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