Ethical aspects of the right to privacy in the 21st century: European consensus in the interpretation of the European Court of Human Rights

Abstract

In the present article, we aim to elucidate concepts that do not directly stem from the content of legal sciences but have a strong impact on how the authors of the act of justice assess phenomena in 21st-century society. The relevance of the theme and the arguments presented in the article largely stem from the content of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights after 2000. We have repeatedly found that it is precisely this regional jurisdictional body’s task to conceptualize and develop general principles of law in the field of fundamental rights and freedoms. In this context, the interpretations of the Court in Strasbourg invoking ethical aspects, in our view, are particularly interesting, when cases involving allegations by the claimants regarding violations of the right to privacy come before it, under Article 8 of the Convention for the Protect