Foreign experience of criminal and legal protection of privacy

Abstract

The authors have studied international practice, as well as the experience of some foreign member states of the European Union in criminal law protection of privacy. The peculiarities of regulating the objective features of the criminal offense of "Violation of privacy" in the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as well as in the criminal law of the United States, the French Republic, Switzerland, the Kingdom of Spain, Poland, Bulgaria. They emphasized the multifaceted nature of the right to privacy in accordance with the provisions of international human rights law, as well as the need to improve domestic legislation in this area through the introduction of unified terminology.