The protection of privacy and personal data as an evidence bank for the theory of fundamental rights
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https://doi.org/10.21056/aec.v25i101.2024Keywords:
privacy; data protection; fundamental rights; testing ground; comparative lawAbstract
The study concerning the development of constitutional protection of private life or privacy in three distinct legal systems (the United States, Germany, and Chile) is conducted within the framework of a broader research project aimed at determining the scope of protection that this fundamental right affords to patients in the context of healthcare-related actions. Its immediate objective is to clarify, through the legal-dogmatic method, issues related to the construction of the protected content of this fundamental right, and to propose certain theoretical consequences derived from the respective findings. The study concludes that the presence or absence of explicit constitutional protection clauses is irrelevant when assessing the outcome proposed as the substantive content of constitutional protection at a given moment. This calls into question the degree of rationality that a positivist theory of fundamental rights—at least in relation to privacy protection—can contribute, and highlights the need to consider alternative conceptual frameworks to explain this constitutional guarantee.
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