Norman Binde's List: ICP

• have the benefit of a permanent injunction restricting the freedom of all forms of media from indentifying the two young men
• police in the Midlands arranged for images of their three 'most wanted' suspects to be projected onto a wall in the town centre. The images were 60 feet high. As at January 10th, two of the three suspects identified, have been found dead.

• In May 2002, one man won his complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) - the organisation funded by the press industry that oversees standards in the press - for invasion of privacy, after a local newspaper photographer photographed him in a restaurant without his consent. (2)
• Privacy, as it is traditionally understood, means freedom from intrusion by the state into one's private life.
• Rather, it seems that claiming 'privacy intrusion' is one of the most effective ways for certain individuals to control unwanted publicity and stop investigations into their lives.
• But should free expression be treated on a par with privacy in the first place?
• Is another law really necessary?
  
• Thirdly, freedom of speech is the lifeblood of democracy. The free flow of information and ideas informs political debate.

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• article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, protecting the right to respect for private life and correspondence, had been breached.
• integral element of the communications made by telephone
• The Court therefore held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of article 8 and that it was not necessary to examine the case under article 13.

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• police officials accused her of taking photographs of cyclone victims with the intent of distributing them to foreign and exile media groups.
• charges related to publicly denouncing the government

• ..on the most recent affair of personal data thaft in the UK.
  If personal data can be stolen from a high security military base apparently that easy, this will raise public concerns about the appropriateness of UK data protection standards and regulations even more. - Norman Binde on 2008-09-27