"Despite widespread acceptance in the community and an increasing level of legal recognition, at the post-philosophical level the basis for the right to privacy is unclear. Central questions relating to the right to privacy remain unanswered. Do humans actually have a right to privacy? If so, where does it come from? What is its scope? How does it rank in comparison to other rights? Legal discourse has not sufficiently addressed these issues. Most privacy advocates simpy assume that the right to privacy has a souind foundation. However, if one looks just a little below the surface the foundation starts to look decidedly wobbly. One way of testing for the importance, if not the exstence, of a right is to imagine a world in which it is absent. There is no “clear” reason why the present state of affairs that we find ourselves in is better off than a world which is identical in all respects except for the fact that there is no right to privacy. It is not immediately apparent that the makeup of the human psyche demands such a right. Now if one undertakes this mental exercise in the context of indisputable rights, such as the right to life or the right to liberty, a wholly different picture emerges. All rights are subject to the recognition of a right to life and historyhas shown us that communities or individuals deprived of the right to liberty (for example, slaves) tend to be, to be put it mildly, miserable – his is shown by the elngths to which people wil go to assert a degree of freedom and autonomy. Not so in the case of the right to privacy."