Privacy’s ontology

Sthéfano Bruno Santos Divino – Professor of Civil Law, Federal University of Lavras, Ph.D student and master in law – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – (sthefanodivino@ufla.br) SOMMARIO 1. Introduction.2. Privacy May be an Anomaly.3. Privacy under attack in the surveillance Society.4. Privacy’s ontology: personality right or property? 5. Final considerations. The aim of this article is to answer the following research problem: what is the ontology of privacy? Two theories will be analysed: the first postulates privacy as a personality right. In this regard, its transmissibility, waiver and the voluntary limitation of its exercise are prohibited in the Brazilian system. On the otherRead More →