No right to drive, healthcare or privacy. I'm not against the right to general privacy I'm just not sure how you could enforce it
A good way to enforce the right to privacy is create a privacy watch dog which can mandate to the government what is legal and what is not legal with regard to privacy.
Like when your license plate is photographed and checked for warrants etc. and it comes up with no hits/problems/warrants or anything else, the government should be mandated to then destroy that record/image with your license plate and location immediately.
The same goes for police surveillance schemes in the US like the one I watched about today on Vice, there hundreds of cameras and microphones where set up all across that city recording and storing hundreds and thousands of hours of people's lives. That should not be allowed to be stored indefinitely and should be destroyed after (for example) three months if no report of a crime for that time frame and that location has been filed.
Like in the Netherlands this watch dog, in accordance with the relevant European watch dogs ruling has stated that prospective employers and even actual employers almost never have the right to watch on their employees facebook or instagram to watch what he does in the weekend or on holidays. There may be exceptions but those should be just that, exceptions and they have to be verifiable and of importance to violate the privacy of their employee or prospective employee.
And company's have to take steps to protect the privacy of their customers, just like the government should do that of it's citizens.
Like when the
Authority
Personal data was warned about a debt collecting agency that wanted to name and shame people who did not want to pay back their debt by filming them and making their names and faces public on youtube for the entire world to see. While the
AP did not formally rule on this issue (in part because the debt collecting company removed the video and has not done it again) said that such violation of privacy was unacceptable for simply not paying a debt.
For all privacy related issues we have the "
Personal Data Protection Act"
For example,
The processing of personal data relating to a person’s religion or belief, race, political affinity, health, sex life and trade union membership is prohibited, subject to the provisions of this Division.
Now this does not mean that your local church cannot have you in their filing system with your religion, nor can your political party be forced to not record your political affinity or your trade union from registering you as a member.
But for example if you came for a membership of a gym, a normal run of the mill gym, they are not allowed to make an application form for that gym which asks questions about your religion/belief, political affinity, health, sex life or trade union membership. They cannot even put in their computer system which race you are. There is no valid reason for a gym to need or record that information.
The same would be if Netflix (they are not, don't get me wrong) would ask on their application for membership what race you are.
That is protecting the privacy of people and I think people have a right to privacy and to have their personal data protected by the government (and from the government, hence the need for an independent judiciary and an independent watch dog).