Right to Privacy in the System of Human Rights Generations

Abstract

The article highligts the issues concerning the right to privacy position in the system of generations of universal human rights. The problem of ensuring the right to privacy in modern information society is quite urgent and hotly debated. The authors come to the conclusion that this right, although formed, is still not formalized as a fundamental right, since the scholars are still arguing about the nature of privacy and the ways of ensuring this right. The in-depth study of this issue in a number of scientific works of Ukrainian scholars has revealed that it is still defined by ordinary citizens and researchers either as a human right to information security, or as a right identical to the right to private property and integrity. On the basis of the study of the legal norms in this sphere and modern legal practice, the authors conclude that the right to privacy is a fundamental human right, the right of the third generation (the generation of global human and civil rights), integrated both to the information component and to such rights as the right to inviolability, freedom of thought and speech and dignity. Currently, the issues of formation and maintenance of the right to privacy are still in the focus of attention and the authors suggest some practical steps to solve them.