The right to privacy comes into conflict with the right to freedom of expression.\u00a0 Freedom of speech is protected insofar as it contributes to democratic debate. However, public figures have a right to private life, where they have a legitimate expectation of privacy.<\/p>\n
The Article restricts and limits states\u2019 rights to conduct surveillance of the kind generally undertaken by the police and other authorities.\u00a0 It is legitimate to collect information for the purpose of prevention and detection of crime.<\/p>\n
Similarly, methods of questioning, searching, fingerprinting and photography are permitted, subject to the conditions. It may be permissible to make and retain records beyond where strictly necessary. The issue arises in the context of the retention and gathering of information by the police authority.<\/p>\n\n
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Family and Private Life The Article protects a number of specific aspects of privacy, namely family life, home and correspondence and private life.\u00a0 It restricts arbitrary interference of those rights, for example, by surveillance and the interception of communications. Privacy is notoriously difficult to define and has many different facets.\u00a0 States are given a margin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20955,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}