In France, the “droit au respect de la vie privée” or the right to privacy, was established in the Civil Code during the seventies as the right to legal personality. Since then, judges have tailored their work to the current social reality practicing “legal model adaptation” in order to protect the different areas within the privacy of the individual. However, the birth of information technology and its evolution has represented a threatening technological phenomenon for privacy, which gave origin to a need for the “loi nº 78-1 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l´informatique aux fichiers et aux libertés” a legal extension of the above mentioned Act, the aims and principles of which are the object of a brief analysis in this article.... [Leer más...]