Housing and the right to privacy

Jessie Hohmann

Chapter 6 in Housing and Human Rights, 2026, pp 150-173 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores the value and function of the private space of the home and its protection through human rights. With the public/private dichotomy as the backdrop, it surveys international and regional legal protections of the right to privacy. It then turns to the implications for the right to privacy of the ubiquitous presence in the home of new technologies embedded in digital devices. Our answers to the questions raised by these technologies are blinkered by the public/private dichotomy, and the final part of the chapter asks whether reconsidering public/private binaries might enable a move beyond a world where we juxtapose a threatening or exhausting public sphere against a promised (but for so many unrealized) private refuge in the home. It argues that to do so involves reinvigorating the commons as a meaningful space and concept, in the process moving away from the canonization of the public/private dichotomy.

Keywords: Public/Private Dichotomy; Home; Digital Technologies; Surveillance; The Commons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035309733
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