PRIVACY INVASION ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND AVAILABLE LEGAL REMEDIES 1.0 INTRODUCTION Many would like to consider the invention of the internet as an amoral reality not inherently bad and not inherently good, but a product of what one chooses to make of it. Like every other amoral reality, we have seen both positive and negative uses of the internet in drawing us closer to one another and eroding boundaries, that until now, erected walls amongst individuals. When the idea of the internet turning the globe to a global village first emerged even experts did not envisage the erosion of door knobs and or invasion of privacy to the degree facilitated by social media today. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to protection of the law against such interference or a...
