Intrusions into privacy.

This article provides information about countries which do not have any specific protection for right to privacy apart from general statements of constitutional principle, countries which have both general and special legislative provisions, and finally those countries which have virtually no provisions and where any conflicts which arise are dealt with only by negotiation. The first category includes countries like Mexico and Venezuela, where no specific provisions exist outside the general terms of the constitutions. The second category includes Argentina, the only country in Latin America among those under study where there is an explicit provision forbidding the dismissal of an employee on grounds of marriage. In Sweden the legislation is not very detailed on this point. As far as Switzerland is concerned, the protection is of an indirect kind. In France, prohibition of celibacy clauses was initiated by a declaration of principle by the Paris Court of Appeals in 1963, and finally in the Federal Republic of Germany, both the legislation and the case law are highly developed in this field. The third category includes the United States and Great Britain where protection results from agreements concluded between employers and employees. Such protection remains dependent on the respective bargaining powers of the organizations concerned and on the extent to which the unions are interested in the topic.