Privacy England

What's Privacy?

Regulation or statute that protects a person's right to be left alone, and governs collection, storage, and release of his or her financial, medical, and other personal information.

The earliest definition of privacy in English law was given by Judge Cooley who defined privacy as "the right to be left alone". It's quite clear, however, in 1990 the Calcutt Committee explained that: "nowhere have we found a wholly satisfactory statutory definition of privacy".

Although there is no express right to privacy under English law, and therefore no civil action available for a purported breach of such a right, there are a number of rights that, in various ways, relate to privacy.

Privacy is cleary mentioned in the article 8 of the European Convention on humain rights which is incorporated in English law.

Privacy takes differents faces as Online privacy, fingerprits, DNA, data protection for examples.

http://definitions.uslegal.com/i/invasion-of-privacy/

TABLOÏDS:

The tabloïds are newspaper which are dealing with celebrity actuality, in fact english the taboïds inform the public of news which concern royal power or celebrities. In this way, we report the doings of celebrities in a seamlessly way, for example, the royal power cannot hide nothing of his actions.

So the tabloids inform the population, which allow it to form a just opinion of reality. Indeed

thanks to the tabloids people can make their own opinion between the official announcements or national media and articles from tabloids.

So if privacy laws were to be bet in place, the tabloids could no longer inform the public of news.

Moreover freedom of expression, which is clearly a fundamental rights inscribed in the Constitution, would be violated.

Moreover freedom of expression is the foundation of a democratic society, and that is why it is subject to special protection. So we cannot prevent the press to express itself, so we can not put up more protection of privacy.

If the fundamental Law on freedom of expression is violated, it means that the other fundamental laws would be too?

Injunctions and super-injunctions or future privacy laws would be an affront to freedom of expression, it would be reductive to the press.

We shall meet in a pattern where the press is monitored and censored, as in China. So population would not be informed anymore of the doings of royal power for example.

What bothers in the tabloids is that the facts reported are true, moreover the tabloids ensure a fair balance between the protection of the right to information and the protection of individual rights, it's mentionned in the common law.

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