Invasion of Privacy

Introduction
Introduction
Privacy is commonly understood as insulation from observability, a
value asserted by individuals against the demands of a curious and
intrusive society. It is intimately associated with our most profound
values, our understanding of what it means to be an autonomous moral
agent capable of self-reflection and choice. Its violation is demeaning to
individuality and an affront to personal dignity.
Invasion of
Invasion of Privacy
Privacy
The intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause,

which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right

to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that

intruded.
It encompasses workplace monitoring, Internet privacy, data

collection, and other means of disseminating private

information. Celebrities are not protected in most situations since

they have voluntarily placed themselves already within the public

eye, and their activities are considered newsworthy.

 Non-Public
Non-Public Individual's
Individual's Rights
Rights
Privacy from:
• Intrusion on one's solitude or into one's private affairs

• Public disclosure of embarrassing private information

• Publicity which puts him/her in a false light to the public

• Appropriation of one's name or picture for personal or commercial

advantage
PublicPublic Figures
Figures and Celebrities
and Celebrities vs.
vs. Ordinary
Citizens
Ordinary Citizens
Public figures and celebrities are more susceptible to media invasion of
their privacy. Ordinary citizens are usually of no interest to the public
and therefore do not, generally speaking, attract media attention.

Where an individual is a public figure or celebrity she is entitled to have

her privacy respected in appropriate circumstances. Having said that,
although many aspects of the private lives of celebrities and public
figures would inevitably enter the public domain, it did not follow that,
even with self-publicists, every aspect and detail of their private lives
was legitimate quarry for the journalist. They are entitled to some space
of privacy.
 Right to Privacy in the 1987
Right to Privacy in the 1987 Constitution
Constitution
Bill of Rights
“Sec. 3. (1) The privacy of communication and correspondence shall be inviolable
except upon lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order requires otherwise
as prescribed by law.”
Sec. 2. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures of whatever nature and for any purpose shall
be inviolable, and no search warrant or warrant of arrest shall issue except upon
probable cause to be determined personally by the judge after examination under oath
or affirmation of the complainant and the witnesses he may produce, and particularly
describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.