No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honor and reputation.

The government was supposed to protect us by protecting our rights and freedoms. Not by enforcing its morality or ethics, or by protecting us from ourselves, or by saving us from ourselves, like we were children and could not choose for ourselves what is right for us or what is wrong for us. Protecting our rights will be through laws, legislation, and the government. People have the free will and right to choose for themselves, to choose their own morality and ethics, and their own way of life [1]. There is a fundamental human right for us to live free from harm, for our family, our property, and everyone as individuals. Harming other people and their property may be immoral, but it also violates the right to live free from harm.

THE KEY CONCEPT

Our founding fathers created the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for a good and moral society. They knew that only in a moral society can a people be free, because a good and moral people do not need many laws and regulations to keep themselves safe, secure, and free with liberty and justice for all. Not everybody in the world is good. Lots of people will have the tendency to violate the law to benefit for their own. As human beings, we have the right to have liberty [2] and secure ourselves, our property, and our reputation.

Privacy, home, and corresponding:

A person’s right to control access to his or her personal information is called privacy [3]. The right of the individual to determine when, how, and to what extent he or she will release personal information can be defined as privacy [4]. Privacy is often raised in the context of government collection or distribution of personal information [5]. Privacy is a fundamental human right. It underpins human dignity and other values, such as freedom of association and freedom of speech means the individual’s right to be left alone [6]. Other people cannot manipulate one’s privacy. If other people interfere with other people’s private information without taking permission of the person, then it crosses the boundary of freedom.

Aspects of Privacy

Privacy can be divided into the following separate but related concepts:

Information privacy[7], which involves the establishment of rules governing the collection and handling of personal data such as credit information, and medical and government records. It is also known as “data protection”;

Bodily privacy, which concerns the protection of people’s physical selves against invasive procedures such as genetic tests, drug testing and cavity searches;

Privacy of communications, which covers the security and privacy of mail, telephones, e-mail and other forms of communication; and

Territorial privacy, which concerns the setting of limits on intrusion into the domestic and other environments such as the workplace or public space. This includes searches, video surveillance and ID checks.

Respect for home, private and family life

Home and family means is a personal life.[8] Home is the property of the home owner. People are live in the civil society. They want freedom and safety from any types of interference. Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications[9]. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, and housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.[10] Freedom from arbitrary interference in private and family life, home and correspondence in according with United Nation Deceleration included in the list of guaranteed rights and freedom of the family rights .which are represented by[11]:

a)      freedom from all arbitrary interference in family life;

b)      The right to marry and finds a family;

c)       The prior right of parents to choose the kinds of education to be given to their children.

Corresponding is the letter, agreement, email, newsgroups, Internet forums, blogs etc. Personal letter or business letter, agreement, Email is a private and very important thing. To keep the privacy is desirable to the owner[12]. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks[13].

Interference on privacy, home and corresponding

An “interference” with privacy is a legal term that involves two aspects. [14] First, there must be a breach of the law, and second, there must be some harm that arose from it.

The breach may be of:

  • one of the Privacy Act’s 12 privacy principles, which govern how people and organizations collect [15], use, disclose [16], store and give access [17] to personal information; or
  • a Privacy Code of Practice that governs a specific area, such as the Health Information [18] Privacy Code; or
  • The privacy provisions relating to data matching between government agencies.

The breach must have led to (or may lead to):

  • financial loss or other injury; or
  • adverse effect on a right, benefit, privilege, obligation, or interest; or
  • Significant humiliation, significant loss of dignity, or significant injury to the feelings of the individual.

Importantly, there is no requirement to show harm in a complaint about access to or correction of personal information. Read more

The gathering and holding of personal information on computers, data banks, and other devices, whether by public authorities or private individuals or bodies, must be regulated by law. Effective measures have to be taken by states to ensure that information concerning a person’s private life does not reach the hands of persons who are not authorized by law to receive, process, and use it, and is never used for purposes incompatible with the Covenant. In order to have the most effective protection of his private life, every individual should have the right to ascertain in an intelligible form, whether, and if so, what personal data is stored in automatic data files, and for what purposes. Every individual should also be able to ascertain which public authorities or private individuals or bodies control or may control their files. If such files contain incorrect personal data or have been collected or processed contrary to the provisions of the law, every individual should have the right to request rectification or elimination. But the authorities often do not follow the privacy of citizens in practice. Although the law requires warrants before law enforcement officials can search premises, this provision was frequently ignored.[19] Authorities monitored telephone conversations, facsimile transmissions, and email, text-messaging, and Internet communications. [20] Even the authority interferes on the matter family.

Protection of private life and the home may also be relevant to decisions made in planning and environmental contexts. Permitting the carrying out of an unpleasant development near your home.[21] Even looking into windows or doors of any building or other accommodation without justification or without the permission of the owner, lessee, or person is unlawful. [22]

Honor and Reputation

Honor and reputation are the personal integrity, respect, fame, dignity, reputation, source of pride, mark of distinction, great privilege, men’s code of integrity, dignity of high position, right to tee off first, and a woman’s reputation [23]. To gain an honor is very difficult, but losing an honor is very easy. If anyone “unlawfully” [24] and “arbitrarily interferes”[25] with the reputation and honor, great people will be discouraged on their work. The State shall, in particular, by its laws protect as best it may from unjust attack and, in the case of injustice done, vindicate the life, person, good name

and property rights of every citizen. [26]No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home, or correspondence, or to unlawful attacks on his other honor and reputation. [27] The child has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.[28] The law must ensure the disabled person’s honor and reputation as well.

Conclusion

The privacy of the persons concerned and the confidentiality of their personal information should be respected. To the greatest extent possible, such information should not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected or consented to, consistent with international law, in particular international human rights law. [29] But it is the authority or agent who uses the personal information, ignoring the person. If a government authority or agent uses private information, they should acknowledge to the owner how, when, and how they will use the information. Home, correspondence, honor, and reputation are the properties of the owner, and no one has the right to harm them. The owner has the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to harm their good name, enter their house, open their letters, or bother them or their family without a good reason. [30] That means "the state or condition of being alone, undisturbed, or free from public attention, as a matter of choice or right; freedom from interference or intrusion." [31]

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