Privacy in the 21st Century

Download or read book Privacy in the 21st Century written by Alexandra Rengel and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Privacy in the 21st Century Alexandra Rengel offers an assessment of the international right to privacy within both a historical and modern context. The book explores the underpinnings of privacy in religion, philosophy, and the law. The author explores the evolution of the legal concept of the right to privacy and offers a comparative law analysis of the global protections of privacy offered by individual states, international agreements, and recognized international legal norms. The author peers into the future of privacy, the technologies which affect the right to privacy, and the ways in which privacy may be protected in the future within the domestic and international law contexts. The author offers her insightful views on possible solutions to counteract encroachments on the right to privacy.