Right to privacy is considered one of the closest rights to the human being, and it has
been the most controversial right among jurists for a long time. Also the sacredness
and saintliness of the private life were preserved in ancient civilizations
, heavenly
religions, constitutions and legislations in most of the world countries. The concept
of privacy is considered a relatively flexible concept, which means that this concept
changes among societies, cultures and the cultural heritage of the countries fromone
time to another. Probably the advent of computer, the information revolution and
the internet gave this right a special momentum; particularly after the wide spread
of information banks in the eighties of the last century, which was called the hysteria
of the social communication over the internet. This hysteria was spread through
websites, chat rooms and social networks where people, whether kids or adults, are
putting a lot of personal information, photos and videos on line. This thing
constitutes a considerable threat on the sacredness of their private lives from the
violation of information, which justifies the legislated interference in many countries
all over the world to pass legislations for computers and internet crimes, such as the Syrian legislator. Passing the legislative decree /17/ on 08 February 2012 in regard to
organizing the communication over the internet and the internet crimes came in time
to respond to the urgent need of reducing the computer and internet crimes. As
such, we will highlight what was mentioned in the aforementioned decree which gave
importance to the private life in the information domain, when it defined the privacy
concept in its first article and dedicated article /23/ to criminalize the violation of the
private life over the internet or any information system. We will try to respond to
many questions about these crimes and provide some suggestions and
recommendations regarding the legislative decree /17/. We hope that it attracts the
necessary attention for the sake of avoiding any gaps in this decree. . ...
