“Private life shall be inviolable. Personal correspondence, telephone conversations, telegraph messages, and other communications shall be inviolable. Information concerning the private life of a person may be collected only upon a justified court decision and only according to the law. The law and courts shall protect everyone from arbitrary or unlawful interference with his private and family life, as well as from encroachment upon his honour and dignity.”
This article protects private life, personal correspondence, telephone conversations and other communications. Information about a person's private life may be collected only upon a justified court decision and only according to law, and the law and courts protect everyone from arbitrary interference with private and family life, honour and dignity.
The police cannot tap a person's phone at their own discretion; a justified court decision is required. An employer likewise has no right to read an employee's personal correspondence.
A common question: by whose decision may information about private life be collected? The answer is only upon a justified court decision and only according to law. Remember that it is a court, not the police or a prosecutor.
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