A tensão entre os direitos à privacidade e à informação : uma análise do caso “The Intercept Brasil”

Abstract

The access to technologies has a fundamental role in the study of the changes experienced in the information society. This environment has as its main characteristic the high and progressive connectivity, intrinsic to the establishment of new forms of human relationship. Therefore, the users move in a profoundly public way, transfiguring privacy and founding the urgency to redimension the legal protection of the rights to information and private life also from a virtual perspective. To make this happen, social experience and particular ways of life must be respected, outlining the specifics of each citizen's social life, especially of those ones considered public personalities. It is in this context, the discussion arises about the exposure of private messages exchanged between public agents involved in the investigation of the famous Operation Lava Jato by the journalistic website The Intercept Brasil. This situation shows that the privacy of public people does have some mitigation by overlapping the right to information, which should not, however, pass through the primordial nucleus of private tutelage due to all citizens.