scholarly journals Protection of the child right to privacy in a criminal procedure and media reporting

Temida ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Ivana Stevanovic
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
The Right

Practice demonstrates the importance of raising awareness about the problem of violence against children as well as the necessity of full protection of the right to privacy of minors as participants of criminal proceedings. Journalists must have special knowledge in order to report on criminal justice proceedings dealing with minors. On the other hand, authorized representatives of departments and institutions that participate in criminal justice protection of minors must be trained to present information to the media in a manner that would hinder its random interpretation in public information resources. Furthermore, the author insists on the practical obligation of the state to take systemic measures in suppressing and protecting minors from violations of their right to privacy and the consistent sanctioning of any violation of this right by representatives of the media, as well as by professionals authorized for protection of the right to privacy of minors.

What of the Child? Preventing the Publication of Children's Names After the Age of 18

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Sophy Baird
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right

Children are afforded a number of protections when they encounter the criminal justice system. The need for special protection stems from the vulnerable position children occupy in society. When children form part of the criminal justice system, either by being an offender, victim, or witness, they may be subjected to harm. To mitigate against the potential harm that may be caused, our law provides that criminal proceedings involving children should not be open to the public, subject to the discretion of the court. This protection naturally seems at odds with the principle of open justice. However, the courts have reconciled the limitation with the legal purpose it serves. For all the protection and the lengths that the law goes to protect the identity of children in this regard, it appears there is an unofficial timer dictating when this protection should end. The media have been at the forefront of this conundrum to the extent that they believe that once a child (offender, victim, or witness) turns 18 years old, they are free to reveal the child's identity. This belief, grounded in the right to freedom of expression and the principle of open justice, is at odds with the principle of child's best interests, right to dignity and the right to privacy. It also stares incredulously in the face of the aims of the Child Justice Act and the principles of restorative justice. Measured against the detrimental psychological effects experienced by child victims, witnesses, and offenders, this article aims to critically analyse the legal and practical implications of revealing the identity of child victims, witnesses, and offenders after they turn 18 years old.

The Impact of New Technologıes on Human Rıghts ın the Context of the Rıght to be Forgotten and the Rıght to Prıvacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
GULNAZ AYDIN RZAYEVA ◽  
AYTAKIN NAZIM IBRAHIMOVA
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Right To Be Forgotten ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The development of new technologies also has an impact on human rights. In the previous “epochs” of global information society, it was stated that that traditional rights can be exercised online. For instance, in 2012 (and again in 2014 and 2016), the UN Human Rights Council emphasized that ‘the same rights granted to people, so to speak, in an “offline” manner, must be protected online as well’. This, in its turn, implicitly brought to the reality that the new technetronic society did not create new rights. Though, we should take into consideration that in the digital world national legislative norms that guarantee the confidentiality of personal data often do not catch up with the technological development and, thus, can’t ensure confidentiality online. Therefore, the impact of digitalization on human rights within the frames of international and national laws should be broadly analysed and studied. The article’s objective is to analyze the impact of new technologies on human rights in the context of the right to be forgotten and right to privacy. Because the development of new technologies is more closely linked to the security of personal data. With the formation of the right to be forgotten, it is the issue of ensuring the confidentiality of certain contents of personal data as a result of the influence of the time factor. The authors conclude that, the right to be forgotten was previously defended more in the context of the right to privacy. However, they cannot be considered equal rights. The right to be forgotten stems from a person’s desire to develop and continue his or her life independently without being the object of criticism for any negative actions he or she has committed in the past. If the right to privacy contains generally confidential information, the right to be forgotten is understood as the deletion of known information at a certain time and the denial of access to third parties. Thus, the right to be forgotten is not included in the right to privacy, and can be considered an independent right. The point is that the norms of the international and national documents, which establish fundamental human rights and freedoms, do not regulate issues related to the right to be forgotten. The right to be forgotten should be limited to the deletion of information from the media and Internet information resources. This is not about the complete destruction of information available in state information systems. Another conclusion of authors is that the media and Internet information resources sometimes spread false information. In this case, there will be no content of the right to be forgotten. Because the main thing is that the information that constitutes the content of the right to be forgotten must be legal, but after some time it has lost its significance. The scope of information included in the content of the right to be forgotten should not only be related to the conviction, but also to other special personal data (for example, the fact of divorce).

scholarly journals Protection of privacy related to criminal procedure

2016 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Milana Pisaric
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
The Right

Every person has the right to privacy and protection of personal data and these rights may be restricted only in order to protect the general interest or the preservation of important values in society. If there is a certain degree of suspicion that a person committed a criminal offense, the competent authorities are authorized to limit his/her privacy rights and to collect and process personal data for the purposes of criminal proceedings, by taking certain actions and measures in accordance with the law. On the basis of legal authorization certain subjects may take regular and special evidentiary actions and measures, but possible privacy infringement and data collection should be limited to the extent necessary to suppress a specific criminal offense in accordance with the principle of proportionality. It is necessary and useful to apply the methods and techniques of information technology in order to detect and prove criminal offenses. However, uncritical regulation and voluntary application of advanced methods and techniques of surveillance and monitoring of user?s activities (whose daily activities increasingly rely on information technology) would create a real risk of expanding and deepening the scope of spheres of life to be monitored to a much greater extent than legitimate monitoring within the concept of pro?activity and creation of a complete and panoptic surveillance of personal data. This could not be justified by the needs to oppose even the most severe forms of criminal offenses. Thus, actions and measures based on the use of these techniques and methods should be laid down and applied in accordance with the principles of specificity, necessity and proportionality, and with control of the judicial authorities, so the right to privacy would not be jeopardized. It is necessary to find a proper balance between the needs of criminal proceedings and respect for human rights, with regard to regulating powers of investigative bodies in collecting data of individuals. In online environment, the protection of the right to legal personality and the right to free development of personality through the right to privacy as well as the protection of personal data are necessary to be provided by legal regulations containing even stricter and more precise rules (comparing to offline environment) that determine the scope of powers of the authorities to collect evidence for the purposes of criminal proceedings, because certain actions or measures can greatly interfere with the private sphere of individuals in the direction of a complete privacy annulment.

scholarly journals The constitutional right to the confidentiality of listening, telephone conversation, telegraph and other correspondence of separate categories of persons

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Mikhnevych
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Telephone Conversation ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right

The right to the confidentiality of listening, telephone conversation, telegraph and other correspondence of separate categories ofpersons is researched in the article. It is establishes that despite all legal guarantees, the right to the confidentiality of correspondenceis provided differently for separate categories of persons. The least secure of this right are those sentenced to imprisonment, and peop -le’s deputies, lawyers and other persons in respect of which a special procedure of criminal proceedings is carried out have the highestimmunity from illegal or arbitrary interference with the right to confidentiality of correspondence. Two scientific concepts of understandingthe right to the confidentiality of correspondence are characterized. The so-called “personal” concept, which considers thisright as a component of the right to privacy and family life, and the second concept justifies the independence of this right, the contentand purpose of which is broader than the protection of privacy. The perception of the right to confidentiality of correspondence in thecontext of the right to private and family life is common. It is substantiated that the “personal” concept is characterized by the connectionbetween the right to confidentiality of correspondence and the right to private and family life, as well as the consideration of theright to confidentiality of correspondence as a separate element of the right to privacy. Instead, the second concept considers the rightto confidentiality of correspondence as an independent right that has a relative connection with the sphere of private life and is a separatepersonal human right. It is noted that the Constitutional of Ukraine derives the right to confidentiality of correspondence in a separatearticle from the inviolability of private and family life, which leads to the conclusion that it is inexpediency to narrow the right toconfidentiality of listening, telephone conversation, telegraph and other correspondence only in privacy or family life.An analysis of the latest normative changes in the legal regulation of ensuring the right to confidentiality of correspondence inUkraine of separate categories of persons, in particular on the restriction of the right to convicted and higher guarantees of the right toconfidentiality of correspondence of deputies of Ukraine, are committed.

scholarly journals Personal data protection from the Criminal Law perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-378
Author(s):  
Miloš Sekulić ◽  
Gordan Grujić
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
The Right

The right to privacy is one of the fundamental human rights that serves to realize a man as a social being and protect the private spheres of their life. Even though this right can be looked at in different ways, due to the modern development of information and communication technologies, it is largely related to personal data and their availability to other persons. In that sense, the right to privacy is also protected via personal data protection. The basis for such protections in Serbian law has already been implemented in the Constitution of Serbia, and by adopting a new Personal Data Protection Law, the legislator has shown their determination to intensify and expand that protection. As it relates to criminal justice protection, a separate criminal offence of unauthorized collection of personal data is prescribed in Article 146 of the Criminal Code. The authors of this scientific paper will try to expose the threat to the right to privacy and personal data, and to give a clearer picture of how criminal justice protection of these values is realized in the Serbian law by presenting the elements of the aforementioned crime.

scholarly journals ACCESS OF PARTICIPANTS OF CRIMINAL TRIAL TO MATERIALS OF CRIMINAL CASE IN A PRETRIAL PRODUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF PROVIDING OF SECRET OF PRIVATE LIFE

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
A.P. Lipinsky
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
Criminal Case ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Process ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right

The article points out the need to ensure the protection of the privacy of participants in criminal proceedings. The problems associated with the violation of the right to privacy in the course of investigative and procedural actions are identified. Conclusions are drawn about the need to ensure the privacy of not only participants in the criminal process (parties and other persons), but also other persons whose information is contained in the materials of the criminal case. The order regulating the warning of participants of investigative and other procedural actions about inadmissibility of disclosure of the data received in connection with participation in investigative and procedural actions is developed. The opinion on inadmissibility of acceptance of refusal of the signature fixing the fact of the warning of the person about criminal liability for disclosure of data of preliminary investigation is proved. A proposal was formulated to establish the participants and the procedure for familiarizing themselves with the materials of the pre-investigation check.

Involuntary Self-Incrimination and the Right to Privacy in Criminal Proceedings

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 74-93
Author(s):  
Claus Roxin
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
German Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Law System ◽  
Invasion Of Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
The Right

In any rule-of-law system the law of criminal procedure is bound to weigh the intended investigation of the truth against the interest of the person charged with a criminal offence in protecting his privacy. The German law of criminal procedure is a typical example of the permanent struggle with these conflicting demands. While the majority of the courts are making an effort to reinforce the protection provided to the accused, the latest pieces of legislation reveal a tendency of allowing increasingly far-reaching invasion of privacy. I will try to map out the most important aspects of this development.In doing so I will distinguish between state-enforced, involuntary self-incrimination and the right to privacy. These two problems overlap because enforced self-incrimination will often entail invasion of privacy and, conversely, because an invasion of privacy by the state will often result in involuntary self-incrimination. But although these problems are intertwined I will differentiate between them and I accept that there will be some overlapping. After all, there may be invasions of privacy without self-incrimination and there may be cases of self-incrimination which are not caused by an invasion of privacy.

scholarly journals RESPECT FOR THE PRIVACY PROTECTED BY LAW IN THE CONDUCT OF INVESTIGATIVE ACTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 856-860
Author(s):  
A.P. Lipinsky
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Other Information ◽  
The Right

The article deals with the issues of ensuring the privacy protected by law in the course of individual investigative actions. The procedural procedure established by the Code of Criminal Procedure for conducting investigative actions does not unequivocally guarantee the protection of privacy, since initially it is impossible to establish the possibility of obtaining a certain result during their conduct, and therefore the question arises of observing guarantees for protecting the right to privacy of participants in criminal proceedings. The author justifies the need, before initiating investigative actions involving invited specialists, translators, interpreters and other persons, to warn them of criminal liability for disclosing the information they received as a result of the proceedings in their presence. The use of photos and video recordings of objects that may contain personal secrets is unacceptable if this does not apply to participants in a criminal law conflict. The transcript of telephone conversations is made only in the part related to the study of the circumstances of the crime committed. Other information should not be reflected in the transcript.

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