The government has made it clear it does not want to introduce a privacy law in the UK but hints that legislation might be necessary.
One suggestion is that a commission or inquiry be set up to investigate the issue of where society thinks the line between a right to privacy and a right to freedom of expression lies.
As the journalist and anti-censorship campaigner John Kampfner put it to me: “The current situation is a mess,” with both judges and politicians fearing to tread in the territory.
Plans for a British Bill of Rights might offer an opportunity for clarification on what we mean by privacy and the public interest.
The trouble is that, even if we do define “private”, will the latest examples of “modern enterprise and invention” inevitably mean “what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops”?
- The right to be let alone, BBC.co.uk, May 21, 2011.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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