Responsabilidad de los medios de comunicación: Intimidad vs. Información

Abstract

The present article is based upon the analysis of the descriptive research, which in a worrisome way connects the conflictive juridical interactions between the media and the intimacy of the people in Colombia.
These interactions prompt a debate of weighing between the freedom of speech and the right of intimacy in Colombia. The well-known Habeas Data, which is a tenet of communication, tends to fade in the midst of the handling of the truth of information, in the field of physical and virtual communication plus all its shapes in the worldwide cyberspace. The proportions and disproportions cause irreparable damages on their
entire dimension, which violate the right of intimacy with the appearance of another number of emergent
and collateral damages. The right to a good name is sacred and forces the ones in charge of the information,
especially the journalists, to weigh and moderate the process of access to information until its outing to the
public. Therefore, it is necessary to advance in the control and monitoring of the communicator’s ethics
with respect to the handling of intimate information lest the news affect people who are part of it.