ABSTRACT
The right to respect for privacy is now accepted as part of the domestic law of a number of countries2 and of international human rights instruments.3 However, the limits of the right are still unclear and a generally accepted definition of privacy has not emerged. As Raymond Wacks has observed, ‘the voluminous [theoretical] literature on the subject has failed to produce a lucid or consistent meaning of [the] concept’.4 It may be said, therefore, that privacy has become a complex and perhaps almost unworkably broad concept due to the variety of claims or interests which have been thought to fall within it.5 The European Court of Human Rights has accommodated many disparate issues within the concept of privacy arising under Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights: they range from the rights of homosexuals6 to the right to receive information about oneself7 As Feldman has argued, the scope of Art 8 is continuing to widen.8
