Right to privacy and right to information: collision of fundamental rights

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of the right to privacy and the right to information. Your goal is to examine these rights under the Consti­tution of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 1988, seeking a consensus for the discussions surroun­ding these two fundamental principles protected in the same constitutional level. The text builds on the study on the “Right to privacy and journalistic information”, using literature, sought to show the right to life and to information as fundamental rights and conflict between these rights. The study results indicated that the solution to the conflict between the right to privacy and the right to infor­mation must be sought in the Brazilian legal system and interpretation of constitutional norms.