Right To Privacy : A Right For The Future

I. INTRODUCTION:
“Privacy is a special kind of independence,
which can be understood as an attempt to secure
autonomy in at least a few personal and spiritual
concerns, if necessary in defiance of all the
pressures of modern society. It is an attempt, that
is to say, to do more than maintain a posture of
self respecting independence toward other men;
it seeks to erect an unbreakable wall of dignity
and reserve against the entire world.”
Clinton Rositter,
“The Free Man in the Free Society”
The Essentials of Freedom
The desire for privacy is distinctively human. It
is a function of man’s unique ethical, intellectual
and artistic needs. Over the years legal scholars
have attempted to define privacy but it is only
in the last century this word has been used as a
legal concept to describe the state’s duty to let
its people alone in certain spheres of their lives2.
Later in the course of its academic and juristic
evolution, the concept in brief and in clear terms
has been described as the claim of individuals,
groups or institutions to determine for themselves
when, how and to what extent information about
themselves is communicated to others.