Privacy Rights/History/Country sources/Paraguay
What is the oldest written source in this country that mentions this right?
Paraguay
The 1870 Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay guarantees in Article 19 that “domicile as well as correspondence and private papers are also inviolable; but a law may provide in which cases and on what grounds an order can be made as to when one may be entered and the other seized.” Article 23 additionally protects privacy, stating that “private acts, which in no way affect public order or morals or do wrong to third parties, are reserved for God alone and exempted from the jurisdiction of the constituted authorities.” The 1992 Constitution contains similar language about both privacy of the home and personal and familial intimacy. The protection of data falls under the rights guaranteed in Paraguay’s Constitution combined with its 2002 Private Information Law which “regulates the collection, storage, distribution, publication, modification, destruction, duration, and overall processing of personal data in files, registers, data banks, or other technical means of processing of public or private data intended to provide reports” (“Paraguay”).
References:
“Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay.” 1870. Comparative Constitutions Project, 2008. World Constitutions Illustrated, HeinOnline. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=cow&handle=hein.cow/zzpy0009&id=6&men_tab=srchresults
“Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay.” 1992. Translated by Maria del Carmen Gress, HeinOnline, 2008. World Constitutions Illustrated, HeinOnline. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=cow&handle=hein.cow/zzpy0024&id=10&men_tab=srchresults
“Paraguay.” DataGuidance. Accessed July 19, 2024. https://www.dataguidance.com/jurisdiction/paraguay