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A right to private family life is protected on both (national and international) levels. Universal nature of this right does not eliminate problems which arise from its implementation in practice. Legal regulation does not reflect changing social reality; state's culture, custums, religion has an undeniable influence on content and ambit of private family life; states' authorities have a wide margin of appreciation in determining what measures to take in order to implement this right and to guarantee its protection. All of these problems result in the unanswered questions about homosexuals', unmarried partners', single parents' right to private family life and its extent, state's positive and negative obligations. This master thesis approaches the right to private family life, its content and limits by analyzing pluralistic concept of family, parent-child relationships and related obligations of the state, imigration and its impact on right to family reunification. The author focuses on answering these questions: which subjects have a right to private family life; what institutes conclude this right and what problems arise from it in pratice; how are the right of free movement and the right to family life protected; how is Article 8 para. 2 of ECHR (that indicates the circumstances in which public authorities can validly interferance with the right to family life) applied in reality. The research has showed that right to private family life is limited by narrow definition of family. This limitation on the right in question is especially noticeable in national law (there is an equal sign between family and marriage in Lithuanian Republic). EU institutions have taken actions in order to overstep this narrow concept, however, these actions can not be held sufficiently effective. In spite of the fact that ECHR foresees the widest definition of family members, it still differentiates the ambit of family private life based on sexual orientation. Problems relating the right to know one's origins, paternity establishment, adoption, care, parents' and children's right to communicate are solved by examining all circumstances and striking a fair balance between these competing interests. All questions should be answered in the light of child's best interests. The institutes mentioned above presuppose state's obligations not only to ensure that it does not deprive person of the right to private family life, but also to take positive action to recognize family relationships and protect them. Even though, the states enjoy wide margin of appreciation in determining its family policy, it has to be mentioned that a failure to fulfill positive and negative obligations, as well as unreasonable restrictions on this right can be noticed in practice. Migration policy depends on the state's national laws, its oligations to EU and ECHR. It is universally acknowledged that the right to family reunification is a part of family private life. Nevertheless, questionable restrictions are set by ECHR in its case law.

A right to private family life is protected on both (national and international) levels. Universal nature of this right does not eliminate problems which arise from its implementation in practice. Legal regulation does not reflect changing social reality; state's culture, custums, religion has an undeniable influence on content and ambit of private family life; states' authorities have a wide margin of appreciation in determining what measures to take in order to implement this right and to guarantee its protection. All of these problems result in the unanswered questions about homosexuals', unmarried partners', single parents' right to private family life and its extent, state's positive and negative obligations. This master thesis approaches the right to private family life, its content and limits by analyzing pluralistic concept of family, parent-child relationships and related obligations of the state, imigration and its impact on right to family reunification. The author focuses on answering these questions: which subjects have a right to private family life; what institutes conclude this right and what problems arise from it in pratice; how are the right of free movement and the right to family life protected; how is Article 8 para. 2 of ECHR (that indicates the circumstances in which public authorities can validly interferance with the right to family life) applied in reality. The research has showed that right to private family life is limited by narrow definition of family. This limitation on the right in question is especially noticeable in national law (there is an equal sign between family and marriage in Lithuanian Republic). EU institutions have taken actions in order to overstep this narrow concept, however, these actions can not be held sufficiently effective. In spite of the fact that ECHR foresees the widest definition of family members, it still differentiates the ambit of family private life based on sexual orientation. Problems relating the right to know one's origins, paternity establishment, adoption, care, parents' and children's right to communicate are solved by examining all circumstances and striking a fair balance between these competing interests. All questions should be answered in the light of child's best interests. The institutes mentioned above presuppose state's obligations not only to ensure that it does not deprive person of the right to private family life, but also to take positive action to recognize family relationships and protect them. Even though, the states enjoy wide margin of appreciation in determining its family policy, it has to be mentioned that a failure to fulfill positive and negative obligations, as well as unreasonable restrictions on this right can be noticed in practice. Migration policy depends on the state's national laws, its oligations to EU and ECHR. It is universally acknowledged that the right to family reunification is a part of family private life. Nevertheless, questionable restrictions are set by ECHR in its case law.

The definition of private life is a relatively new concept in the Lithuanian law. The laws of the country do not strictly define what the private life is. There are no rules in Lithuania which would clearly describe which aspects of private life of a public figure should be revealed and which should not be communicated to the public. There is a huge number of privacy theories which prove how difficult it is to define privacy. Some theorists (L. Brandeis, W. Brennan) relate privacy to the human rights; others (R. Gavison, A.F. Westin) link it to the isolation; some of them (C. Fried, A. Miller) see privacy in relation with control. There is no unanimous classification of privacy theories. The empirical aim of the research is to analyse the aspects of politicians' privacy described in Lithuanian daily newspapers (Lietuvos Rytas and Respublika). Two national daily newspapers, namely Lietuvos Rytas and Respublika, have been chosen for the analysis of the research topic. The periods of elections to Lithuanian Seimas in 2004 and 2008 have been chosen for this research. Three months before the elections and three months after the elections during the selected years have been chosen as the period for the research. The main objective was to observe whether the number and nature of the articles describing the private life of politicians differ and if the alternation is noticed how does it change. The chosen periods for the research are from 1 July, 2004 until 31 December, 2004 and from 1 July, 2008 until 31 December, 2008. During these periods, the articles which described the private life of politicians or their family members, i.e. the articles which do not relate to the direct duties of the politicians, from the above mentioned daily newspapers were analysed. The results of the research. The research conducted has revealed that there are cases when news media representatives who present the information about the private life of politicians or their family members are driven by their curiosity rather than rightful public interest and in this way infringe the politicians' rights for private life. The research has shown that the politicians and their family members do not avoid talking about and publicising their most private experiences. It should be noted that the positive articles about politicians' private lives could be used as a tool to form a particular image of politicians.

The definition of private life is a relatively new concept in the Lithuanian law. The laws of the country do not strictly define what the private life is. There are no rules in Lithuania which would clearly describe which aspects of private life of a public figure should be revealed and which should not be communicated to the public. There is a huge number of privacy theories which prove how difficult it is to define privacy. Some theorists (L. Brandeis, W. Brennan) relate privacy to the human rights; others (R. Gavison, A.F. Westin) link it to the isolation; some of them (C. Fried, A. Miller) see privacy in relation with control. There is no unanimous classification of privacy theories. The empirical aim of the research is to analyse the aspects of politicians' privacy described in Lithuanian daily newspapers (Lietuvos Rytas and Respublika). Two national daily newspapers, namely Lietuvos Rytas and Respublika, have been chosen for the analysis of the research topic. The periods of elections to Lithuanian Seimas in 2004 and 2008 have been chosen for this research. Three months before the elections and three months after the elections during the selected years have been chosen as the period for the research. The main objective was to observe whether the number and nature of the articles describing the private life of politicians differ and if the alternation is noticed how does it change. The chosen periods for the research are from 1 July, 2004 until 31 December, 2004 and from 1 July, 2008 until 31 December, 2008. During these periods, the articles which described the private life of politicians or their family members, i.e. the articles which do not relate to the direct duties of the politicians, from the above mentioned daily newspapers were analysed. The results of the research. The research conducted has revealed that there are cases when news media representatives who present the information about the private life of politicians or their family members are driven by their curiosity rather than rightful public interest and in this way infringe the politicians' rights for private life. The research has shown that the politicians and their family members do not avoid talking about and publicising their most private experiences. It should be noted that the positive articles about politicians' private lives could be used as a tool to form a particular image of politicians.

Nowadays most of the information is gathered through the internet, where a vast amount of data is being exchanged every second. However, most of the cyberspace users are not fully aware of the technological side of the Internet. One of the tools used on the Internet to ensure instant and informative service to users, are cookies, a small piece of collected data about user's preferences. Data collected and combined from different cookies creates a serious danger to users' privacy. The fact that users are not always aware of their data being collected even sharpens the problem of privacy protection on the Internet. The purpose of this thesis was to examine the consent requirement for the use of tracking cookies in legal framework of European Union, United States of America and Lithuania and to find out if the use of tracking cookies without user consent interferes with users' right to privacy. In order to achieve the aim of this work, descriptive-interpretive research approach was used in the first part of thesis to analyse various concepts of privacy, defined in different scientific literature, as well as different types of cookies and their purpose. In the second part of thesis, normative-comparative approach was used to analyse various legal systems, their essential laws and principles, theoretical backgrounds and their requirements for the valid user consent intended for the use of cookies. The principal conclusion was that use of tracking cookies without unambiguous (opt-in) user consent interferes with users' right to privacy and personal data protection.

Globally, the growing downloads of mobile applications is growing every year. As a result, the competitive environment for mobile applications is growing in parallel. Therefore, trust in applications and their developers can be ensured through the correct implementation of data protection practices. However, data protection is not always actually ensured or provided to consumers in a simplified language. The main purpose of this work is to determine the impact of privacy policy information presentation formats on the intention to deploy mobile applications in different categories. The work was divided into three parts. The first part examines the objectives of the privacy policy and the basic data protection requirements, the categories of mobile applications, the perceived risks and trust related to data protection, the basics of communication and visualization of privacy policy information, the variables to implement applications. In the second part - the research methodology is described, hypotheses are raised. The third part analyses the results of the quantitative study, identifies the formats of the presentation of the privacy policy that determine the consumers' decision to implement mobile applications, and presents the conclusions and suggestions. The study analyses 2 different categories of mobile applications - social networking and everyday finance. A total of 245 respondents participated in the online questionnaire. The following empirical data processing methods were used: data triangulation, factor ANOVA, correlation, linear regression, moderation. A 2x2x2 factor design was used for the study (visual and non-visual presentation of the privacy policy statement; utilitarian and hedonic application; risky and non-risky application). The results showed that the assessment of the importance of privacy policy message formats differs from the visual presentation. Visual presentation has a positive effect on the approach to applications and the intention to implement them. Perceived risk and perceived trust also differ from the different risk presentation of a privacy statement. The results showed that the category of the mobile application, the gender and the age of the respondents were not important variables in the study. The conclusions presented in the work could be applied for marketing purposes, further research and business developing activities through mobile applications.

Confidentiality of personal health information is an important value which is protected by The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and other laws. However, the right to confidentiality is not recognized as absolute in the doctrine of law, legislation and legal cases. When there is the restriction of confidentiality of personal health information, it is necessary to emphasize the principle of necessity to protect a legitimate target which is necessary in a democratic society. It is important to notice that every restriction must be provided at the level of a piece of legislation. In the paper there is analyzed and evaluated the cases of the disclosure of personal health information to third parties, identified violations and made recommendations what legislative measures should be implemented to ensure the patient's right to private life. In the paper there has set the following objectives: to analyze the current situation in Lithuania what there is the regulation of the patient's right to privacy; to present the practice of different countries about patient's right to privacy; to carry out a theoretical analysis by comparing the various scientific researches on the personal health privacy; to determine what is the restrictions for the principle of medical confidentiality; to identify privacy problems while disclosing personal health information; to reveal when information is disclosed in accordance or compliance with the principle of proportionality. In the paper there are formulated two hypotheses. H1 – in the case of Lithuania, disclosing personal health information to insurance companies without the consent of the patient there is violated the patient's right to privacy. H2 – in the case of Lithuania, disclosing information about the student's health to training institutions (schools) there is violated the student's right to privacy. After all researches and analysis both hypotheses are irrefutable. To achieve the purpose of the paper and test hypotheses there is used the following research methods: systematic analysis – investigating the relationship between law and the ethical, moral and policy guidelines; comparative – juxtaposing scientific opinions and experiences of different countries; law (legislation) analysis – introducing with the legal environment, presenting limitation of the scope of medical confidentiality; legal case analysis – explaining the law, giving examples of violating the law; summative – structuring the material, giving insights of the author. There is lots of laws which somehow is connected with right to privacy and disclosure of personal health information. There is some main in this area. The European Convention on Human Rights tries to find balance between respecting the public interest and fundamental rights of the individual. The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine provides that everyone has the right to respect for private life in relation to information about his or her health. Lithuanian legislator was one of the first in the Europe who regulated the patient's rights by consolidating one legal act – the Law on the Rights of Patients and Compensation of the Damage where is established that all information about the patient being in health care institution, his health status, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, as well as any other personal information about the patient, should be kept confidential. In Lithuanian law there are described cases when the principle of medical confidentiality may be limited and information about a person's health status may be disclosed without the patient's consent: if disclosure is needed to health care provider for medical purposes; if minor is under 16 years old, health information is disclosed to his parents (but there can be exceptions); if it is needed to contact a relative of an injured; to eliminate or reduce a significant risk of serious bodily harm to another person or the public; for legal representatives; if a court or other public authorities requires to disclose health information; if health care institution gives information about patient's health to its insurance company (author doesn't agree with last regulation). It is not always clear when disclosure is lawful and when unlawful. It also depends on the country and its value system. European Court of Human Rights in a case related to the \"necessity\" or \"restrictive\" terms often applies the margin of appreciation doctrine. It should be noted that in some countries, patient's privacy issues are regulated more strictly, and in some other countries, patient's privacy issues are regulated more softly. The patient's private life is violated not only when information about the health status is disclosed illegally in violation of laws and regulations, but also if the legislature ultra vires passes laws that are contrary to the Constitutions and international agreements. In the paper there is presented proposal to change the Law on the Rights of Patients and Compensation of the Damage and prevent the health care institutions to disclose personal health information to their insurance companies without the consent of the patient. The main argument to support this proposal is the lack of legitimate target (national security; public safety; economic well-being of the country; prevention of disorder or crime; protection of health or morals; protection of the rights and freedoms of others) for this kind of regulation. One more proposal is to change the form of the Child Health Certificate which is approved by the Minister of Health. The main argument to support this proposal is the violation of the principle of proportionality and the excess information of the content. It is not necessary to name the exact disease because teachers are not competent to evaluate this information. It would be enough to write conclusion what child can or cannot do, and recommendations for teacher what first aid measures should be made on the basis of the child's illness (not disclosing exact disease).

The social nature of human beings pushes them for social interaction and each human being has their own interests, which may not always coincide with the interests of other individuals. Therefore, a state's high priority task is to ensure that every human being and the whole society is protected by the state from unlawful acts. The state is obliged to take legal means to disclose the criminal acts committed by the individuals, and limitation of human rights and fundamental freedoms is inevitable. It means that law enforcement agencies can enter a person's private life protected by international and national law. In given situations, a form of competition arises between the two legal values protected by the law: the right of the people to be secure in their persons and the right of person to privacy and dilemma how to tackle in case of collision of two mentioned values during pre-trial investigation. Based on international standards formulated by European Court of Human Rights, a person's right to privacy can be limited in some cases if such restrictions procedures, in details, are prescribed by law. Mandatory requirements for law restricting a person's privacy are: accessibility (publicly accessible for everyone who wish to introduce); targeting legal objectives; possibility to protect a person's rights from illegal actions; foreseeability; necessity in the democratic society for the prevention of disorder or crime; state's interference into a person's privacy must fit pressing social need. The states (signatories of 1950 European Convention on Human Rights) enjoy a certain but not unlimited margin of appreciation in the matter of the imposition of restrictions on a person's right to privacy. [.]

The social nature of human beings pushes them for social interaction and each human being has their own interests, which may not always coincide with the interests of other individuals. Therefore, a state's high priority task is to ensure that every human being and the whole society is protected by the state from unlawful acts. The state is obliged to take legal means to disclose the criminal acts committed by the individuals, and limitation of human rights and fundamental freedoms is inevitable. It means that law enforcement agencies can enter a person's private life protected by international and national law. In given situations, a form of competition arises between the two legal values protected by the law: the right of the people to be secure in their persons and the right of person to privacy and dilemma how to tackle in case of collision of two mentioned values during pre-trial investigation. Based on international standards formulated by European Court of Human Rights, a person's right to privacy can be limited in some cases if such restrictions procedures, in details, are prescribed by law. Mandatory requirements for law restricting a person's privacy are: accessibility (publicly accessible for everyone who wish to introduce); targeting legal objectives; possibility to protect a person's rights from illegal actions; foreseeability; necessity in the democratic society for the prevention of disorder or crime; state's interference into a person's privacy must fit pressing social need. The states (signatories of 1950 European Convention on Human Rights) enjoy a certain but not unlimited margin of appreciation in the matter of the imposition of restrictions on a person's right to privacy. [.]

The social nature of human beings pushes them for social interaction and each human being has their own interests, which may not always coincide with the interests of other individuals. Therefore, a state's high priority task is to ensure that every human being and the whole society is protected by the state from unlawful acts. The state is obliged to take legal means to disclose the criminal acts committed by the individuals, and limitation of human rights and fundamental freedoms is inevitable. It means that law enforcement agencies can enter a person's private life protected by international and national law. In given situations, a form of competition arises between the two legal values protected by the law: the right of the people to be secure in their persons and the right of person to privacy and dilemma how to tackle in case of collision of two mentioned values during pre-trial investigation. Based on international standards formulated by European Court of Human Rights, a person's right to privacy can be limited in some cases if such restrictions procedures, in details, are prescribed by law. Mandatory requirements for law restricting a person's privacy are: accessibility (publicly accessible for everyone who wish to introduce); targeting legal objectives; possibility to protect a person's rights from illegal actions; foreseeability; necessity in the democratic society for the prevention of disorder or crime; state's interference into a person's privacy must fit pressing social need. The states (signatories of 1950 European Convention on Human Rights) enjoy a certain but not unlimited margin of appreciation in the matter of the imposition of restrictions on a person's right to privacy. [.]

The doctoral thesis, on the basis of the elements for the assessment of the necessity of restricting the freedom of expression of website operators in a democratic society, formulated in the cases Delfi AS v. Estonia, MTE & Index v. Hungary, Pihl v. Sweden and Tamiz v. the United Kingdom, investigated by the European Court of Human Rights, established and assessed the criteria justifying the application of website operators' non-contractual civil liability in case of violation of the right to privacy of third parties by anonymous comments. The first part of the work, which is based on the concept of structuralism, reveals the content of freedom of expression of website operators arising out of Article 10 of the ECHR and of the category of private life, which is an assumption for restricting the freedom of expression of website operators, as well as distinguishes the specific criteria justifying the application of website operators' civil liability in case of violation of the right to privacy of third parties by anonymous comments. The second part of the doctoral thesis, which is based on the principle of functionalism, using the complex analysis of the judgements made in the above-mentioned cases of the European Court of the Human Rights, evaluated the content of each criterion, compared the peculiarities of their content and application in different cases, discussed the problems and significance of these criteria, and determined their interrelation. This is the first scientific research of this kind not only in the context of Lithuanian, but also of the European tort law. The research has shown that the key criteria justifying the application of website operators' civil liability in case of violation of the right to privacy of third parties by anonymous comments are the following: (i) the context in which the comments are posted and the content of the comments themselves and (ii) prior measures taken by the website operator to ensure the legality of the comments and actual behaviour after the comments were posted. Meanwhile, other criteria distinguished by the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (i.e. (i) the actions of the victim before and after the occurrence of comments, (ii) the consequences of the comments on the victim, (iii) the possibility of civil liability of the authors of comments as a certain alternative to the liability of the website operators, and (iv) the consequences of civil liability for the particular website operator) are to be considered as additional and having no essential impact on the fact of the application of website operators' civil liability, yet significant when making a decision on the extent of the application of website operators' civil liability.

The doctoral thesis, on the basis of the elements for the assessment of the necessity of restricting the freedom of expression of website operators in a democratic society, formulated in the cases Delfi AS v. Estonia, MTE & Index v. Hungary, Pihl v. Sweden and Tamiz v. the United Kingdom, investigated by the European Court of Human Rights, established and assessed the criteria justifying the application of website operators' non-contractual civil liability in case of violation of the right to privacy of third parties by anonymous comments. The first part of the work, which is based on the concept of structuralism, reveals the content of freedom of expression of website operators arising out of Article 10 of the ECHR and of the category of private life, which is an assumption for restricting the freedom of expression of website operators, as well as distinguishes the specific criteria justifying the application of website operators' civil liability in case of violation of the right to privacy of third parties by anonymous comments. The second part of the doctoral thesis, which is based on the principle of functionalism, using the complex analysis of the judgements made in the above-mentioned cases of the European Court of the Human Rights, evaluated the content of each criterion, compared the peculiarities of their content and application in different cases, discussed the problems and significance of these criteria, and determined their interrelation. This is the first scientific research of this kind not only in the context of Lithuanian, but also of the European tort law. The research has shown that the key criteria justifying the application of website operators' civil liability in case of violation of the right to privacy of third parties by anonymous comments are the following: (i) the context in which the comments are posted and the content of the comments themselves and (ii) prior measures taken by the website operator to ensure the legality of the comments and actual behaviour after the comments were posted. Meanwhile, other criteria distinguished by the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (i.e. (i) the actions of the victim before and after the occurrence of comments, (ii) the consequences of the comments on the victim, (iii) the possibility of civil liability of the authors of comments as a certain alternative to the liability of the website operators, and (iv) the consequences of civil liability for the particular website operator) are to be considered as additional and having no essential impact on the fact of the application of website operators' civil liability, yet significant when making a decision on the extent of the application of website operators' civil liability.

Offences in private life are dayly occurrence. Public information means very often abuse their own rights and in impermissible ways struggle through private lives instead of presenting more information about personal life inviolability and its defence possibilities. This kind of situation has several backgrounds – first of all, after soviet period`s deprivation of individual lives and poor legal education of the society it is still felt that people are not used to defend their offenced rights, using all possibilities provoded by law; secondly, due to enourmous infomation technologies' development pace science of law cannot keep up properly analysing and evaluating newly appeared relations, so standarts of law solve practical problems just for a part. The information of the society requires high culture level, strong ethic and moral positions, respect to the values and moral norms, recognized on the country's, national and international levels. This is the sphere, where narrow private and group interests, wishes to apply and develop demoralizing show business "culture", abuse of ethic norms should not be acceptable. Freedom of the media is inseparatable from social and legal responsibility, because when standarts of law do not work, democraty suffers and human rights are downgraded. The essence of the right of personal life inviolability is the right to decide himself/herself what kind and amount of information to reveal about own private life under the condition that such information can be announced just having the permit of the person. In such cases, when person's right of personal life inviolability is being defended, there is conflict of two equal constitutional values – the right of personal life inviolability and society's right to know, so it is important to look for wise and honest ballance of the two defended rights. On the other hand, each right and freedom has its edges, which are indicated in the laws in order to defend public interest and rights of other people. The right of personal life inviolability is expired, when there is need to stop a criminal action, defend rights of other persons and when society has to be defended from abuses of authority´s representatives.

Offences in private life are dayly occurrence. Public information means very often abuse their own rights and in impermissible ways struggle through private lives instead of presenting more information about personal life inviolability and its defence possibilities. This kind of situation has several backgrounds – first of all, after soviet period`s deprivation of individual lives and poor legal education of the society it is still felt that people are not used to defend their offenced rights, using all possibilities provoded by law; secondly, due to enourmous infomation technologies' development pace science of law cannot keep up properly analysing and evaluating newly appeared relations, so standarts of law solve practical problems just for a part. The information of the society requires high culture level, strong ethic and moral positions, respect to the values and moral norms, recognized on the country's, national and international levels. This is the sphere, where narrow private and group interests, wishes to apply and develop demoralizing show business "culture", abuse of ethic norms should not be acceptable. Freedom of the media is inseparatable from social and legal responsibility, because when standarts of law do not work, democraty suffers and human rights are downgraded. The essence of the right of personal life inviolability is the right to decide himself/herself what kind and amount of information to reveal about own private life under the condition that such information can be announced just having the permit of the person. In such cases, when person's right of personal life inviolability is being defended, there is conflict of two equal constitutional values – the right of personal life inviolability and society's right to know, so it is important to look for wise and honest ballance of the two defended rights. On the other hand, each right and freedom has its edges, which are indicated in the laws in order to defend public interest and rights of other people. The right of personal life inviolability is expired, when there is need to stop a criminal action, defend rights of other persons and when society has to be defended from abuses of authority´s representatives.

The advancement of new technologies is radically changing the world. Nowadays society is a transparent society. In recent years, the use of video surveillance cameras (also called Closed Circuit Television, or CCTV) throughout the world has grown to unprecedented levels. And there we find out many problems, concerning protection of an individuals private life. The work discusses the issue of right to private life protection in a context of video surveillance. The right to private life is quite young in world's legitimate system and especially in Lithuanian law system. Personal data protection as a part of privacy right is an aspect of human rights. This proposition is universally accepted. As long ago as 1948, privacy was given recognition in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, privacy was implemented in European Convention of Human Rights. This work is divided into three parts. One of them is talking about a conception of a privacy, separates data protection conception from right to private law, the second one is talking about video surveillance systems in general, their technical capacity, the last one is talking about European Convention of Human Rights and its article 8 as the main principle which is a sound base for European Union and Lithuanian regulation of video surveillance, analysis Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Directive 95/46/EC of the European Union, Constitution of Lithuania, Lithuanian Data Protection Law in the context of video surveillance. As the studies of right to privacy (and personal data as a part of it) protection in the context of video surveillance are only making their first steps in Lithuania, these thesis was aiming to explore and define the right to privacy (personal data protection problem) in oder to give firm grounds for the scientific investigations of this field in the future.