Yash Dewan, Amity Law School, Noida
Introduction
The right to privacy is one of those numerous notions of law the abstract nature of which makes its perpetration a difficult chore. The common saying “Your liberty ends where my nose begins” is indicative of the understanding of a common man when the question of right to privacy arises.
A further comprehensive description of privacy is established in the Black’s Law Dictionary, which defines privacy as the “The right to be let alone, the right of a person to be free from unwarranted publicity; The right of an individual (or corporation) to withhold himself and his property from public scrutiny, if he so chooses.”
For example, A person had a medical procedure administered or was diagnosed with a terminal illness, if that person does not want to have those details shared with any other person except the relevant practitioners, he has the right to the same. This is not an unhindered right however, as this has some reasonable restrictions. Such restrictions may impose themselves in situations where the illness is unprecedented or extremely contagious, and can spread like the Covid Pandemic, then there arises a situation where other people have an invested right to know about it.
