Original title: Analýza práva na ochranu soukromí: Mezinárodní právo v době virtuálního sledování
Translated title: The Right to Privacy Deconstructed: International Law in an Age of Virtual Surveillance
Authors: Prijatel, Alan ; Lipovský, Milan (advisor) ; Pulgret, Miroslav (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2017
Language: eng
Abstract: Bibliographic note: PRIJATEL, Alan J. The Right to Privacy Deconstructed: International Law in an Age of Virtual Surveillance, 72p. Master's Thesis. Univerzita Karlova (Charles University), Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Studies: Prague, Supervisor: JU. Dr Milan Lipovský, Ph.D. Abstract: In order to understand the process to which the right to privacy operates under current international and regional legal frameworks, we ask ourselves the question if "the digital age" merits an interpretation of privacy unique to this phenomenon of cyberspace. If indeed the right to privacy can be interpreted in this way, we ask whether or not there is a deficit to legal protections to the. This "right to privacy in the digital age" will be taken in context of international law, conventions, principles, and norms in addition to being explored in case-law from the European Court of Human Rights to draw an understanding of the right to privacy in the digital age- if any such right does indeed exist. This thesis essentially, as the title implies, "deconstructs" what puts together the right to privacy and examines what parts of the law that was intended to fortify privacy in the first place, has shortcomings to its defense. I am arguing that there indeed are normative deficits to the right to privacy. In...
Keywords: Cyberspace; digital-age; human rights; international law; privacy; surveillance; virtual; Cyberspace; digital-age; human rights; international law; privacy; surveillance; virtual

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/90653

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