Between public interest and spectacle

the collision of fundamental rights in an analysis of Coleção Mulheres Assassinas

Abstract

This article analyzes the clash between fundamental rights in a context of expanding digital media. Starting from the foundations of constitutionalism and the centrality of the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, it discusses the protection of personality rights in contrast to communicative freedoms, such as freedom of expression and the right to information. The research adopts as its empirical object the media exposure of Suzane von Richthofen, Elize Matsunaga, and Flordelis, highlighting how their trajectories are constantly exploited by the media, often beyond the public interest, approaching sensationalism and the spectacularization of private life, in a society of transparency and fluid surveillance. It concludes that hypervisibility and hypercommunication contribute to the continuous violation of personality rights. Thus, it defends the need for a balance between freedom of information and the dignity of the human person, based on criteria such as veracity, timeliness, and legitimate public interest.