The Rules of Silence in Law

Threats to Privacy
By Jean-François Laé
English

Juridical discourse sheds new light on privacies under surveillance. Under the law, theft is impossible and sex is invisible within the family, which creates an impenetrable space: that of silence-bound immunities. On the borders of juridical rules, silences surprisingly resemble the reservations of interviewers.

Keywords

  • intimacy
  • law
  • secret
  • sexuality
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