THE CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

Abstract

The fast development of new technologies and particularly, social networks, are setting up a society who lives addicted to their mobile devices daily. In a globalized world, any image or comment posted on a social network reaches an uncontrollable number of recipients in just a few seconds, which leads to virtual world devirtualize. Also, one of the major risks which this society is facing is convert privacy in a public setting or an open gateway permanently opened to the public, losing control over the privacy. The purpose of this article is to address different areas of legal protection of the right of privacy, but focusing exhaustively in criminal matters