Freedom of expression is not just limited to the individual persons but is also applicable to many areas in society like the press, which in many countries of the world is controlled and/or censored by established powers as a way to manipulate public opinion. Recently the fight against hate speech or fake news is taken as an argument to increase this limitation or censorship, specially in the social media.
Closely related to freedom of speech are the right to privacy for the individual, on one hand, and, on the other, the needed transparency of governments, corporations and other institutions in the public domain. The apparent conflict between these two is often used, specially by the powerful, claiming the right of privacy to hide matters that could actually be illegal or even criminal, as is often the case of bank secrecy.
