From Out-Law.com, a case in the U.K. where a judge declines to order identification of two anonymous commenters because the comments are no more than “pub talk:” The Daily Mail does not have to identify the people behind two anonymously posted comments on its website because to do so would breach their rights to privacy,…
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NZ: Reality TV show breached privacy – BSA
A Northland man whose arrest for possession of a small amount of cannabis was shown on TV2’s Police Ten 7 programme had his privacy breached, in what the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) says is a “landmark decision” regarding filming reality television. It has ordered TVNZ to pay the man $1500 in compensation for breach of…
Family suing Alberta government over alleged privacy breach
Jasmine Franklin reports: Four years of domestic abuse “hell” followed by nearly a decade-long battle to obtain a nationwide name change came crashing down for a Canadian mother and daughter after the Alberta government posted their identities online. “Jane” and her daughter “Janet Doe” obtained Unpublished Secure Name Changes more than five years ago and…
UK: Mulcaire Ordered To Name Names
Luckie Henderson reports: The private investigator at the centre of the News of the World (NOW) phone hacking scandal, Glenn Mulcaire, has been ordered by a judge to disclose the names of celebrities and public figures whose phones he hacked, and the names of the people who commissioned him to do so. Mr Justice Vos,…