2.4 Right to Privacy

Article 28 — the protected zones: person, residence, property, documents, records, statistics, correspondence, and reputation — and the confidentiality provision's guard. The media-privacy tension (this unit's core balance): The private-facts problem: the newsworthiness defence vs. the dignity claim — publication of private facts (health, relationships, finances) justified only where the public interest genuinely weighs; The intrusion problem: the newsgathering itself — secret recording, telephoto surveillance, pretext interviews (Unit 4's ethics interface); The public figure: diminished but not extinguished privacy — the official's conduct vs. the family's zone; The statute: the Individual Privacy Act, 2074 — privacy's codification: consent-based disclosure rules, the exceptions, the remedies (including against media publication); The defamation overlap: reputation's protection (Article 28's last limb) — the defamatory publication as privacy's cousin (Unit 9's machinery).