Privacy, the individual’s right to respect for his/her private life and home, confidentiality of mail are fundamental defensive rights against state interference. In the workplace as well there is a limit for the employer to meddling with the privacy of an employee. Every Belgian is listed in about 300 databases, from the “Rijksregister-Registre national” to the e-health platform. Is there anything left of our privacy? New technology and the post- 9/11 climate of government monitoring have heavily strained these “sacred rights”.