Penal protection of the right to privacy in the digital environment Under Algerian legislation "Crime of not obtaining prior consent"

Abstract

Private life is one of the fundamental interests and values that the Criminal Code is concerned with protecting through texts that criminalize assault, in close connection with individuals' freedoms and the resulting preservation of their dignity and the preservation of their perpetuity. The risk of infringing on private life has increased after the wider use of computers to gather information about individuals, which has made the individual's life so open to all that he can no longer cover up this previously earned advantage. Therefore, legislation, including Algerian legislation, restricts bodies and institutions to procedural and substantive rules governing the collection and storage of individuals' information, and it is a punishable offence to bypass or ignore these rules.