Informacijos apie privatų asmens gyvenimą apsauga
Date Issued |
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2008 |
The task is to define the right of privacy and accord that right to full protection against claims based on freedom of the press. According to the article 22 of the Constitution the private life of an individual shall be inviolable. The same principle is mentioned in the article 8 of European Convention on Human Rights. Another constitutional value is freedom of speech, but the article 25 of Constitution establishes that freedom to express as well as to obtain and disseminate information, may not be restricted in any way other than as established by law, when it is necessary for the safeguard of private life. The relation of the right to privacy to other rights and possible means and limitations of the combination of these rights are examined in the Article. Law has to harmonize opposite interests and guarantee adequate protection of these interests by legal regulation. The principle of constitutional integrity is a legal imperative to the legislator and other subjects to base their actions upon the Constitution as an integral system. Therefore, from the standpoint of legal validity, no constitutional norm can be superior to another. It is not possible for a legal regulation, where an individual is deprived of a certain constitutional right while realizing another, to be set. Exceptional attention is paid to regulation of the right to privacy and the protection of information about private life, taking into consideration a different social status of public and private persons and exceptional protection of judges’ authority and impartiality.