NDLI: Conceptualizing the Right to Privacy: Ethical and Legal Considerations

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Conceptualizing the Right to Privacy: Ethical and Legal Considerations

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Cohen-Almagor, Raphael
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. Preliminaries We all care about our privacy. We all would like to keep some part of it outside the public domain. However, this is becoming increasingly difficult as technology advances and the media are struggling to fill time slots and empty pages. When news is becoming entertainment (infotainment) and private stories become public spectacle, individual lives can be mercilessly exposed to the glaring spotlight of unwanted publicity. In delineating the boundaries of intrusion, distinctions are made between children and adults; between public figures and ordinary citizens; between people who choose to live in the spotlights, and ordinary citizens who stumble into the public forum, and between ordinary citizens doing something of public significance and those who do not. I discuss the tragic death of Princess Diana and then examine the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and Chapter III of the Civil Code of Quebec [1994] that were invoked in a recent Supreme Court case, Les Editions Vice-Versa Inc. v. Aubry concerning the use of a person's photo without asking for her permission. Siding with the Court's majority in this case it is asserted that the public's right to know does not allow scope to magazines to take photos of people to decorate their covers without the people's consent. I should explain the rationale for addressing these two case studies. Diana's complicated relationships with the British media and the Aubry case in Canada have attracted attention in the respective countries. In a way, the two stories exemplify the two different cultures: the British
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Alternate Webpage(s)	http://hcc.haifa.ac.il/~rca/articles/Rita-Privacy.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
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