Investigative reports with a hidden camera and constitutional jurisprudence

Abstract

At the end of 2011, the Spanish Constitutional Court had not ruled on any case regarding the constitutional rights of journalist to use hidden cameras. Finally, the awaited sentence of the High Spanish Court, came out on January of 2012, and solved the claim made by Canal Mundo Producciones Audiovisuales, S. A. and the Televisión Autonómica Valenciana, S. A., against the sentence or the Supreme Court, which had interpreted that an illegitimate interference had taken place in the rights to privacy and to the own image of the naturist Rosa Fornés Tamarit. The Constitutional Court resolution stated that the use or furtive recording for journalistic purposes can have negative consequences on the rights of the rights of the personality.