The Right to the inviolability of private life
ENThe present chapter deals with the legal guarantees of the inviolability of the personal and family life that mean the constraint of the accessibility to the details and facts of such life, prohibition of the illegal collection and publicity of the confidential and other information of the private nature that exclusively belongs to a person. The human rights and freedoms in the sense of responsibilities and obligations are consolidated in the international human rights documents as well as in the Constitution of Lithuania, whereas the application of such freedoms may be predetermined by such formalities, conditions, constraints and restrictions that are provided by the law and that are necessary for the protection of human rights and freedoms, the legal interests of the public and the state. The present chapter deals with the issue whether the basis for such constraints and restrictions as well of the procedure of their application does not contradict the underlying principles of the protection of human rights consolidated in the aforementioned documents and Constitution of Lithuania. The specific problem analyzed in this chapter should also be noted. To date the published reports and reviews on the situation of human rights in Lithuania very often wrongly interpret the valid laws providing the grounds and procedure for the restriction of the right to inviolability of private life and the situation in the field of the protection of these rights is portrayed in a subjective and tendentious way. Due to the fact that the different evaluation of the same phenomenon must be motivated and grounded by legal arguments, then the latter circumstance in the present chapter cannot be and is not ignored [p. 54].
