Rights to Privacy

This report discusses the rights to privacy and the impact of surveillance and monitoring on these rights. It explores the violation of privacy laws by the government and organizations, and the influence of surveillance on individuals' personal lives.

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Individual’s right to privacy:
The rights to privacy stand to represent the rights of an individual to take personal
decision without any interruption of the government laws and regulation. In simple words the
Right to privacy protects the fundamental rights of an individuals from the governmental
surveillance and threats. The privacy right of an individual includes to secure the personal
aspects, papers and relationship with the existing population. As an example getting married
and taking divorce is a choice of an individual, thus as per the rules of Rights to privacy there
will be no interruption by the government. However, the surveillance to those private
information and activities by the government as well as the private sectors has made a
significant impact on the individual’s life (Milanovic 2015).
Impact of advance surveillance and monitoring on the rights to privacy:
Considering the aspects of Rights to privacy, it has been observed that the
surveillance as well as monitoring process by the government in order to analyse the
activities of the human has intended to violate the primary objective of Rights of Privacy
(Polonetsky & Tene 2013). From the analysis of several studies in has been noticed that in
the country like United States the government has allowed the monitoring and surveillance
techniques like video monitoring system, listing and recording the phone calls and
conversation as well as the biometric monitoring system, which actions are entirely violating
the laws of Right to Privacy. As the implementation of these surveillance and monitoring
system interrupt the personal conversation and private issues it can be stated that the

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government laws has violated the privacy law which was developed to maintain the privacy
of individuals (Fuchs 2013).
Influence of organization on its employ rights to privacy:
Along with the actions which has been taken by the government in order to monitor
the activities of the citizen, it has been noticed by the analysis of the organizational working
process and their employment process the organizations are opted to analyse the social media
as well as personal information in order to determine the nature of that employ. However, this
process way adopted to provide most preferable work environment to the employ, this action
has violated the law of Right to Privacy. Along with that most of the organization has
implemented the biometrics in which it analyses the particular physical part of the worker’s,
however followed by the rules of individual’s rights to privacy, any individual has the right to
protest against this action (Flaherty 2014). Along, with that the analysis of big data related to
the social media activities, personal conversation of the employs as well as the customers the
organizations are enhancing their decision making approach (Ajunwa, Crawford & Schultz
2017). Whereas, analysing any individuals personal data for any personal benefit is entirely
against the Rights to Privacy.
Thus, it can be stated that however there are several aspects related to the privacy
concern of an individual has been covered in the law of Rights to Privacy, government of
United States has violated most of the regulation in order to determine the crime scenario,

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industrial improvement as well as the development of the country by the surveillance to those
actions of the citizens.
Reference:
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Milanovic, M. (2015). Human rights treaties and foreign surveillance: Privacy in the digital
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