The CJEU’s decision has reminded us that privacy rights cannot be ignored, no matter how worthy the aims of the transparency movement, writes James Quarmby (Stephenson Harwood).
Privacy is accepted as a basic human right. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) establishes the ‘respect for private and family life’ and this has also been mirrored in the UK’s own Human Rights Act 1998 at article 8.
Privacy campaigners would say that the reason for these protections is self-evident – without privacy we have no dignity or sense of individuality. The right to privacy it is argued is the right to be left alone to be ourselves without unwarranted scrutiny or interference by the public or the authorities. On the other hand transparency campaigners argue that privacy is often used as a shelter by criminals and those that facilitate them and ...
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The CJEU’s decision has reminded us that privacy rights cannot be ignored, no matter how worthy the aims of the transparency movement, writes James Quarmby (Stephenson Harwood).
Privacy is accepted as a basic human right. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) establishes the ‘respect for private and family life’ and this has also been mirrored in the UK’s own Human Rights Act 1998 at article 8.
Privacy campaigners would say that the reason for these protections is self-evident – without privacy we have no dignity or sense of individuality. The right to privacy it is argued is the right to be left alone to be ourselves without unwarranted scrutiny or interference by the public or the authorities. On the other hand transparency campaigners argue that privacy is often used as a shelter by criminals and those that facilitate them and ...
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