The intimate and the private in the face of press freedom

Abstract

The law must be kept in line with the evolution of social changes, it is inevitable that more and more often before the mass of access to information, sources of information and communication channels, the confrontation between the right to privacy / privacy and freedom of the press, obviously associated with freedom of expression, represents an interesting debate in addition to frequent in the field of so-called difficult cases in the law, which leads us to try to establish how the high courts settle the situations or cases in those who collide these rights. In the current constitutional and legal tendency, the mechanism of weighting has been imposed, when these “confrontations” are treated as principles or rights, which is a tool that is important to begin to discover in order to understand its application in specific cases.

Keywords

• libertad de prensa
• derecho de información