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Originally, privacy was conceived primarily as a duty of the state not to abuse its powers It could not, for example, enter a private house without legitimate reason or reasonable suspicion that the owner of the house had engaged in, for example, criminal conduct Gradually, however, privacy has been transformed into a subjective right of the individual to protect his/her personal interests, such as related to human dignity, individual autonomy and personal freedom.
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van der Sloot, B. (2017). Privacy as virtue: searching for a new privacy paradigm in the age of Big Data. In: Beyvers, E., Helm, P., Hennig, M., Keckeis, C., Kreknin, I., Püschel, F. (eds) Räume und Kulturen des Privaten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14632-0_10
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