Privacy law

Privacy law is a broad category of statutes, constitutional principles, and common law precedents related to an individual’s right to privacy and reasonable expectation of privacy. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights assert that every person possesses the right to privacy, different countries have a wide range of approaches to regulating privacy, from the highly developed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union to countries that have few or no explicitly-defined privacy laws.