Padraig Reidy: Should we object to legislation on privacy?
Tag Archives: privacy
PCC review calls for more transparency
Emily Butselaar: PCC review calls for more transparency
I’m a celebrity get me some privacy?
David Paton: I’m a celebrity get me some privacy?
Privacy vs technology: UC Davis and Gmail conundrum
Elizabeth Stitt: Privacy versus tecnology on US campuses
Google execs convicted over video
Padraig Reidy: An Italian court has convicted Google executives
Max Mosley argues for a ‘right to notification’
Emily Butselaar: Max Mosley’s campaign for a ‘right to notification’
‘The new law of privacy is strangling the free press’
The Times/Matrix Chambers debate on privacy
Ken Macdonald: privacy laws are just image control for celebs
Writing in today’s Times, Index on Censorship trustee Sir Ken Macdonald QC makes a compelling argument against privacy laws, which he sees as a tool of the rich, powerful and famous: ‘[I]f privacy protection were ever to chill our press as it has frozen irascible comment in other parts of the world, we would pay [...]
Google removes images from ‘street view’
London’s office workers have been wasting employers’ time this week with Google’s Street View. Putting together millions of images of London (and other cities) Google has created a virtual metropolis to explore. Of course, most people haven’t really been exploring, just looking up their homes and offices (the Index on Censorship office was a little [...]
Paul Dacre and privacy
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is not happy. In his speech to the Society of Editors last night, he railed against the dangers of the creeping introduction of the notion of privacy in UK law. Specifically, he singled out Mr Justice Eady, whose judgments in privacy cases he described as ‘arrogant and amoral’. Privacy is [...]
