Privacy Law Will Need to be Reformed in The Modern Age of Technological Media
Keeping secrets in the age of tweets is going to be somewhat of a challenge. Britain’s privacy law is a mess and increasingly unsustainable. Taking common law principles of fairness, add a dash of European human rights legislation, a lucrative tabloid trade in kiss and tells stories and ineffective press watchdog, touch or banks about service justice and the technology that makes everyone into a publisher and what do you get? The mess of Britain’s privacy laws. Now, under sweeping review by jointly both Houses of Parliament.
The latest and most spectacular episode involves a married footballer, Ryan Giggs at Manchester United who went to court to stop news organizations reporting on his alleged affair with a woman who the judge said they had been trying to blackmail him although she denies this. Mr Giggs gained the remedy sought but not the result of which is that his private life became a public scandal with his name featuring in fans Calls in state in use as a catchphrase on talk shows broadcast by 75,000 Twitter users and ultimately on May 23 mention in the House of …