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PRIVACY & HUMAN RIGHTS

Human beings had been struggling to attain eternal peace and create a heaven on earth, where every human being can enjoy his freedom without any interference from any corners whereby he can gain the material, spiritual and intellectual fulfillment. It is very difficult to give precise meaning of privacy because it varies from society to society but its importance and need in any society cannot be ignored. It is necessary and essential to preserve and protect the dignity of the individual. Under the common law systems, the whole evolution of law of torts incorporates nothing but this right to privacy. Assault and battery, defamation talk about the privacy of person; trespass, conversion and nuisance talk about the privacy of property or home that is to say that nothing can be done without the consent of the person which is unreasonable against the person or property of an individual. The law of contract which centres  around  the ‘consent’ as the essential ingredients is nothing but