Privacy enjoys a special place in legal and ethical systems of Islam. In fact, man’s dignity and credibility in the individual sphere as well as among those living with him in the public sphere enjoy a high status before God. In order for the society to be free from conflict and contradiction and to move towards social consensus, God the Almighty, through revelation to His Prophet, has asked human beings to observe people’s privacy through ethical instructions and religious commandments. This paper is an attempt to investigate questions in relations to the value and significance of privacy in real and virtual atmospheres and also to discuss the viewpoints of Islam about safeguarding of privacy on the basis of human dignity, reverence of believer, and universality of permission. Also attempts have been made to reread ethical concepts by shedding light on the ethical norms of privacy in the field of users and managers of cyberspace.
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