Introduction

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Discussing the right to privacy is , to a great extent , like entering into a fog . Controversies can be found with regard to almost every aspect of this right and the extent of protection it warrants , whether on the normative plane or on the conceptual plane . There are those who view it as a demand and others who view it as a right , an interest , a value , a preference or an existential state . Protecting privacy is therefore perceived in several different ways : as a descriptive concept , as a normative concept , as a legal concept , or as all three . The principle of privacy in itself stems from worldviews concerning government , human rights , relations between individual and state , and relations between the public arena and private space . It can be assumed that the controversies stem , at least partially , from the fact that the discussion about the right to privacy , like its constitutional anchoring and the anchoring of the institutional arrangemen...  אל הספר
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