section_path: Work–family balance/Protection of private and family life
section_name: Protection of private and family life
paragraph_text: Protection of private and family life
  
  Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence ", subject to certain restrictions that are "in accordance with law" and " necessary in a democratic society ".
  
  Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life
  
  1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
  
  2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedom of others.