Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Fundamental Rights -- What Is Privacy? -- Threats to Privacy in Modern Times -- The General Right to Privacy as a Norm of International Law -- Salient Issues: The Right to Privacy in Specific Contexts -- Privacy in the Age of Terrorism -- Appraisal and Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Privacy Protections in the Constitutions of Countries -- Index.

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In Privacy in the 21st Century Alexandra Rengel offers an assessment of the international right to privacy within both a historical and modern context. The book explores the underpinnings of privacy in religion, philosophy, and the law. The author explores the evolution of the legal concept of the right to privacy and offers a comparative law analysis of the global protections of privacy offered by individual states, international agreements, and recognized international legal norms. The author peers into the future of privacy, the technologies which affect the right to privacy, and the ways in which privacy may be protected in the future within the domestic and international law contexts. The author offers her insightful views on possible solutions to counteract encroachments on the right to privacy.

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