Article 34
(Inviolability of home and correspondence)
1. Domiciles and the secrecy of correspondence and other means of private communication are inviolable.
2. Entry into a citizen’s domicile against his will may only be ordered by the competent judicial authority
and then only in the cases and in compliance with the forms laid down by law.
3. No one may enter any person’s domicile at night without his consent, save in situations of flagrante
delicto, or with judicial authorisation in cases of especially violent or highly organised crime including
terrorism and trafficking in persons, arms or narcotics, as laid down by law.
4. The public authorities are prohibited from interfering in any way with correspondence,
telecommunications or other means of communication, save in the cases in which the law so provides in
matters related to criminal procedure.
Article 35
(Use of information technology)
1. Every citizen has the right of access to all computerised data that concern him, which he may require to
be corrected and updated, and the right to be informed of the purpose for which they are intended, as laid
down by law.
2. The law shall define the concept of personal data, together with the terms and conditions applicable to
its automatised treatment and its linkage, transmission and use, and shall guarantee its protection,
particularly by means of an independent administrative entity.
3. Information technology may not be used to treat data concerning philosophical or political convictions,
party or trade union affiliations, religious faith, private life or ethnic origins, save with the express
consent of the data subject, or with an authorisation provided for by law and with guarantees of
non-discrimination, or for the purpose of processing statistical data that are not individually identifiable.
4. Third-party access to personal data is prohibited, save in exceptional cases provided for by law.
5. The allocation of a single national number to any citizen is prohibited.
6. Everyone is guaranteed free access to public-use information technology networks. The law shall
define the regime governing cross-border data flows, and the appropriate means for protecting both
personal data and other data whose safeguarding is justified in the national interest.
7. Personal data contained in manual files enjoy the same protection as that provided for in the previous
paragraphs, as laid down by law.
Article 36
(Family, marriage and filiation)
1. Everyone has the right to form a family and to marry under conditions of full equality.
2. The law shall regulate the requisites for and the effects of marriage and its dissolution by death or
divorce, regardless of the form in which it was entered into.