The understanding of the right to privacy is linked to the circumstances of an actual case and to privacy as a value. For this reason, the right to privacy is subject to changes. Due to technological development, it is necessary, inter alia, to use legal regulation in order to sustain the appropriate level of privacy in the society. The ubiquity of information technology results in legal discussions focusing on informational privacy, where the currently prevailing theory holds that the individual is the controller of his or her personal data. It can be expected that this theory will change in the future to give suitable legal value to the impact on other social groups and the whole society, which will be seen especially in the case of voluntary losses of privacy and posthumous privacy protection.
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