[Right to privacy, reservation or secret. Changes in perspective of research on human genome]

1. Three kinds of privacy can be identified: territorial, bodily and, thirdly, psychological or spiritual. Cases and examples of each. 2. Two aspects are involved in breaches of the right to privacy--in any of its three forms-: the actual invasion of someone's privacy and the subsequent publication of the product thereof. 3. The right to privacy can enter into conflict with other constitutionally protected right such as the right to information, freedom of expression and freedom of scientific enquiry. 4. Research on the human genome has opened up a new area in privacy, given that it is unlawful to intrude into the genetic structure of a person without said person's lawful consent. Nothing is more private than a person's own individual genetic code. There may be exceptions to the right to genetic privacy: cases of lawful intrusion. 5. Unwarranted intrusion: discrimination in school admissions, employment contracts and insurance policies.