Privacy Law

Although the protection of privacy is a relatively new issue in our society, the emergence of new technologies and easy access to these technologies has posed a serious threat to the private sphere of individuals. In this regard, some people violate the privacy of others with malicious intent and some without malicious intent. The ambiguity of the concept of privacy and its distinctions from public privacy, and the lack of effective legal and judicial measures to protect this privacy, have led abusers to disclose the privacy of others with ease.

Accordingly, the book Privacy Law has been written to define the limits of privacy, its identification criteria, and its important components. The right to privacy, like other rights, has limits and exceptions, this book tries to define and explain these exceptions both in general and about each of the components of privacy. Introducing the legal and judicial experiences of some countries in protecting privacy is also one of the points that have been considered throughout the book. The book is organized into three sections. The book is organized into three sections. In the first part, concepts such as privacy, the basis, and nature of the right to privacy, privacy in international documents, and the protection of privacy in Islam. In the second part, privacy protection in different countries of the world and Iran is studied comparatively and in the third part, important categories of privacy in the form of privacy and, physical privacy, the privacy of job seekers and employees, privacy in media activities, privacy of personal information and private communication are explained Given that this book is the basis for the study and preparation of the “Draft Privacy Protection Bill”, finally, the first draft of this bill, which is currently being submitted to the parliament of Iran, is considered.