Privacy as Personality Right: Why the ECtHR’s Focus on Ulterior Interests Might Prove Indispensable in the Age of “Big Data”
Article 8 ECHR was adopted as a classic negative right, which provides the citizen protection from unlawful and arbitrary interference by the state with his private and family life, home and communication. The ECtHR, however, has gradually broadened its scope so that the right to privacy encroaches...
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Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2015-02-01
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Series: | Utrecht Journal of International and European Law |
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Online Access: | http://www.utrechtjournal.org/article/view/151 |