Protection of the Right to Respect for Private Life in Cyberspace: Practice of International Human Rights Bodies

Student: Imanova Tamilla

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2019

The structure of the work consists of an introduction, two chapters, conclusion and bibliography. The first chapter is devoted to the content of the right to respect and protection of one's private life in its four main aspects, as well as to the the terminological apparatus for this study. The second chapter focuses on the main methods and forms of violating and interfering with this right through the use of IT-technologies based on the Internet and on the practice of international human rights courts and committees, in particular, the European Court of Human Rights. The conclusion is devoted to the creation of new legal norms by the states in the last decade that update legislation to protect a person and a citizen from interfering in his private life with new, “virtual” ways of the digital age.

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