POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AND INTIMACY AS META-INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

Abstract

The objective of this article is to highlight the historical evolution of the fundamental right to privacy, from its original notion as a right of exclusion, until its understanding as the right to informational self-determination through control over the essential information about oneself. The text also presents the evolution of metaindividual tutelage within the context of the Brazilian legal system and its possible use as a guarantor of effective protection of private life.

Keywords

• privacy
• informational self-determination
• metaindividual tutelage