Conceptual Landmarks Regarding the Right to Private Life

Abstract

Despite the attention paid in recent years to privacy, there is still no agreement on the exact meaning of the term. We believe that of all the fundamental rights, privacy is the most difficult category to define because of the specific aspects inherent to it. Nowadays, it is more and more difficult to protect privacy and, in particular, the privacy of information as a value. At the global level there are fears regarding the violation of privacy due to the increase in the power and speed of information technology. By virtue of them, it is absolutely necessary to develop and implement at the state level a viable mechanism for the protection of the right to privacy. Considering the evolution over time of the notion of privacy, as well as taking into account the sensitive connotations it carries, we could define the right to privacy as follows: „The right to private life is a right to individualism, which consists in the ability to live safe from the eyes of others, as well as the ability to establish and develop relationships with others”.