Author(s)

Saleh Sharari¹, Raed S. A. Faqir^2*

¹Public Relations & Media, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan.
²Zarqa University Collage, Balqa Applied University, Zarqa, Jordan.

The present study tries to explain the legal position of privacy in the legal practices of two global different legal cultures: The Continental and Anglo-Saxon systems. This study aims at making sufficient explanation as regard the historical development of the concept and its terminology, and to define the scope of privacy protection and its several forms. Moreover, the study aims to undercover the legal treatment with privacy issues as related to legal protection of dwelling houses, private places, photography, personal communication and conversations, as well as the professional secret’s safeguards under both civil and common law systems.

Global Legal Systems, Privacy Forms and Scope, Legal and Criminal Protection

Sharari, S. & Faqir, R. (2014). Protection of Individual Privacy under the Continental and Anglo-Saxon Systems: Legal and Criminal Aspects. Beijing Law Review, 5, 184-195. doi: 10.4236/blr.2014.53018.