This article examines the lacunae in contemporary understandings of the right to privacy which genetic data exposes. In particular, the article argues that the nature of genetic data challenges modern, individualistic conceptions of privacy which have come to dominate human rights law in the twenty-first century. The article suggests that the seeds of a new understanding of privacy which integrates existing individualistic understanding with the need to acknowledge the relational nature of modern privacy can be located in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union. The article offers some initial thoughts on how a relational theory of privacy based on this jurisprudence would function, and argues that further engagement with how to reconcile the collective impacts of genetic data processing and individualistic understandings of privacy is needed.

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遗传数据和隐私权：迈向隐私关系理论？

本文探讨了当代对遗传数据所暴露的隐私权的理解中的缺陷。特别是，该文章认为，基因数据的性质挑战了现代的、个人主义的隐私概念，这些概念在 21 世纪主导了人权法。文章认为，将现有的个人主义理解与承认现代隐私的关系性质的需要相结合的对隐私的新理解的种子可以位于欧洲人权法院和欧盟法院的判例中。这篇文章提供了一些关于基于该法理学的隐私关系理论如何发挥作用的初步想法，