ABSTRACT The right to privacy is a fundamental human right under international law. The right to privacy for an individual is the right to hide or obscure elements of their life from the wider public. In the modern age, the need for privacy is becoming increasingly difficult in light of modern communication companies which seek to make once which was considered private, public. The right to privacy has historically not been at the forefront of discussions within the international community and the United Nations. This position changed after the Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica revelations. The focus from the international community is on addressing not only the practices of state sponsored surveillance but also surveillance undertaken by modern communications companies. This article will focus on how the United Nations, the international community and international law aim to bring surveillance practices in line with human rights law and what privacy means in the modern digital age. The first part of the article will look at the inherent right to privacy, the second part will cover the recent developments from the United Nations and international law and the third part will look at the challenges ahead in the modern age of surveillance and digital communication.

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国际法、监视和隐私保护

摘要 隐私权是国际法规定的一项基本人权。个人的隐私权是对更广泛的公众隐藏或掩盖其生活元素的权利。在现代，鉴于现代通信公司试图将曾经被认为是私人的、公共的，对隐私的需求变得越来越困难。隐私权历来未处于国际社会和联合国内部讨论的前沿。在 Edward Snowden 和 Cambridge Analytica 披露之后，这一立场发生了变化。国际社会的重点不仅是解决国家资助的监视做法，还包括现代通信公司进行的监视。本文将重点介绍联合国如何，国际社会和国际法旨在使监视做法符合人权法以及隐私在现代数字时代的含义。文章的第一部分将着眼于固有的隐私权，第二部分将介绍联合国和国际法的最新发展，第三部分将着眼于现代监控和数字通信时代面临的挑战。