Resumen de The right to private life and its invasions in tort law
The right to private life came into existence as a right to be let alone. Initially it was built on the idea to protect against interferences into the zone of one’s privacy. However, it soon spread out to encompass a broader set of rights largely resting on the concept to promote free development of one’s personality, self-determination and control over the presentation of the self. That is the reason why the right to private life settled within a newly emerging group of personality rights narrower in limits than the category of personality fundamental rights in constitutional law. The forms of invasion of the right to private life refer to unreasonable intrusion upon the seclusion of another, public disclosure of private facts, appropriation of one’s name, voice, likeness, interference with one’s right to image and likeness, unacceptable placing the other in a false light before the public, unlawful involvement with the right to self-determination and identity. This paper looks into the development of the right to private life, its meaning, the various types of wrongs related to it and the way they stand in Bulgarian case-law.
