All Posts Tagged With: "Privacy"
Parliament must clarify Privacy Law with clear legislation.
BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour last Saturday featured a short debate between Conservative MP Nick Herbert and Alfred (Lord) Dubbs about the use of Cl.8 of the Human Rights Act in recent privacy cases. Herbert, like Mail editor Paul Dacre, argues that Parliament, not judges should be making any new laws on invasion of privacy.
The DNA profiles of millions of innocent Britains made safe from the snoopers.
There is a curious and pleasing irony in the European Court of Human Rights’ decision in favour of the Sheffield Two, who have fought the British police through all domestic courts to have details of their DNA profiles removed from a national criminal register. The ruling as been almost universally applauded here, not least by those sections of the British public – the UKIP, the BNP and Tories of Little England tendencies – who most deplore the concept of “Europe” and indeed “Human Rights”.
Ginger whinger
For an editor of a national newspaper – if you choose to call the Sun a newspaper when there’s a strong case for reclassifying it as a comic – Rebekah Wade has a pretty flaky idea of how the law works. She told the Guardian today:
The point of concern is there is just one man making the law by setting a precedent sitting on his own. In a democracy that cannot be good for society. The point of having one solitary judge who is unelected and unaccountable who is setting a precedent in British law … I think a lot of people will be surprised that he sat alone in the Max Mosley case because there’s no jury in privacy cases.
The Spluttering Man from the Soaraway Sun
It was fun on the BBC’s Today programme this morning to hear a stuttering, burbling, ill-informed Graham Dudman – managing editor of the Sun, attempting feebly to defend the right of the popular press to plaster private details of individuals’ lives all over the pages of their unpleasant little organ.
Like every Shag-Rag editor, Dudman agreed with Paul Dacre’s claim yesterday that Mr Justice Eady was introducing a privacy law “through the back door.”
He contended that if these papers didn’t give their readers the vicarious smut they craved that somehow the standards of our national press would decline. Any claim that papers like the Sun, or the Screws or the Mail uphold any kind of journalistic standards is laughable.
Mosley wants to set up a Libel Fund for the less rich
Max Mosley is pursuing several libel actions around Europe against publications who were careless enough to repeat the News of the World’s allegations that he had engaged five dominatrices for a Nazi style orgy – now believed by most of us in court to have been, beyond doubt, invented by Screws hack, Neville “Onan the Barbarian” Thurlbeck.
Mosley has suggested that he might use some of the proceeds of these libel actions (and it’s likely he’ll win several of them) to set up a fund so that those less rich than he could also pursue the Wapping lie-factory next time they transgress.
The Daily Telegraph and the News of the Screws – hand in hand.
It’s surprising to see the Telegraph running to the support of the News of the World. To non-journalists, this brotherhood among those who write for the nation’s newspapers is puzzling. The DT and the NoW, on the face of it, have such different motives in their investigation of individuals’ private lives.
The aim of the News of the World is to fill its pages with prurient tattle about rich and influential people, whether businessmen or movie stars.
Sienna in the Sun
After years of publishing saucily posed shots of semi-naked women with big mammaries and small brains, those wacky guys at the Sun just can’t understand that not every woman wants to be a Page 3 girl.
Nor can they tell the difference between an actress and glamour model – to them they’re just good-looking women with tits, and if the actresses won’t come in voluntarily, they feel it’s their duty to get them there anyway for their reader’s delectation.
Last year Sienna Miller took £37,500 from the Sun and the News of the World for publishing shots sold to them by renegade photographer, Warren Richardson. Sienna is an actress who accepts that from time to time, a movie part genuinely requires her to disrobe, but quite reasonably, she will only do it on a “closed” set, where no-one outside the production is allowed.
Neville “Onan the Barbarian” Thurlbeck has his day in court
Neville “Onan the Barbarian” Thurlbeck was in Court 13 at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday 9th.
The intrepid senior smut and celebrity bonk reporter for Britain’s leading ShagRag strode up to the witness box, russet beaked, with neat, implausibly nut brown hair and steely determination in his close-set eyes. He knows how to spin a tale, and he was going to show us how he could stand by it.
There was no doubt in his mind, he told the court, that despite the absence of a single specifically ‘Nazi’ feature in the hours of video footage his informant (Woman E) had shot at Max Mosley’s party, it was, ‘taken in the round’, clearly a Nazi themed party. He had even, it emerged, asked Woman E to come in close with her hidden camera to get Max Mosley giving a Nazi ‘Zieg Heil’ salute, though, to his evident disappointment, she had failed to evoke this response.
Tom Crone justifies Screws porn movie
Max Mosley is suing the Screws for invading his privacy and fabricating a ‘Nazi’ element to his sexual activities. With their brazen disregard for public standards, they released their secretly filmed tape of events - which bore not a lot of resemblance to the story in the paper - on their pornographic “family” website.
Tom Crone, legal boss at the News of the Screws, says that the paper believes a healthy society should respect the public’s right to know “legitimate facts about the behaviour and activities of public figures and leaders.
Max Mosley’s case is not about the restraint of Press Freedom.
Max Mosley’s case against the News of the World is about two things:
Straightforward libel in their false portrayal of his activities as being ‘Nazi’ in flavour.
Unjustified invasion of his personal privacy.
It’s not unnatural that journalists should make a lot of noise in protection of what they perceive as their traditional right – the sacrosanct unassailable right of newspapers to write anything they like, unless it’s wrong (of course).
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Glad to see the bile level are back to normal.