Scope of the Right to Privacy according to Russian and European Legislation

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the European and Russian legislation, the practice of its application and scientific literature, the terms "private life", "personal privacy" and "privacy" are defined. The content of an individual's right to privacy during the transition from industrial society to a post-industrial information society, including the right to information privacy and the right to informational self-determination, is revealed. The limits of permissible intervention in the sphere of a person's private life are indicated, which can be physical, behavioral, alternative, etc. In particular, the right to privacy must be considered in two interconnected levels: as a value and as a legal norm. Based on the broad understanding of the content of the right to privacy category, the author makes a conclusion about the emergence of a new generation of individual rights that can be established as technogenic informational human rights.