The Protection of Rights in The Digital Age

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The current notion of privacy, understood as information privacy, is; therefore, the last meaning that privacy has assumed after social and technological development has prompted, as well as imposed, a reinterpretation of the ancient concept. The right to privacy coincided with the right to be let alone of American memory, which attributed to the individual the right of the individual to be left alone, in peace, undisturbed; to enjoy, in this way, a reserved and intimate sphere sheltered from the intrusion of others. The European Court of Human Rights has given a very broad interpretation of privacy.