Threats on Privacy in Modern Days

Suppose you receive an anonymous letter one day. The letter describes in details what you have done in the past 3 days. It tells at what time you leave your home, which bus you took, where you have shopped and with whom you have met. It even refers to how you changed your clothes before you went to bed. Your immediate reaction will be anger and then you may become scared because you would wonder how the writer has come to know so much about you. After you have calmed down yourself, you probably would think that you have been psychologically hurt because you have not foreseen that someone have been watching over you in so much detail. Because you have heard about ‘privacy’ before and know that it is known to be a right to a person, you would probably think about the legal remedies in order to prevent that to happen again.

Now ask yourself the following questions:

1. In the above example, you have been hurt psychologically. Do you think that there will surely be a legal remedy to you just because of that?

2. Are you sure that you can find out who your privacy intruder is so that you can have him successfully prosecuted?

3. What remedies you are looking for: civil so that you can get a compensation or criminal so that the privacy intruder can be arrested and punished?