Crikey says: Privacy Eye
"A statutory right to privacy is one very small shield against a vast effort to find out everything about you."
View ArticleHow safe is your privacy?
Apparently your privacy is safe in the hands of Australia’s mainstream media. It’s not, of course. Ask Pauline Hanson, John Della Bosca, Troy Buswell, David Campbell and innumerable celebrities.
View ArticlePrivacy Eye: media shouldn’t fear debate on privacy laws
The federal government’s decision to initiate a debate on privacy laws has provoked some typically premature condemnation from some sections of the media, writes Michael Smith, former editor of The Age.
View ArticlePrivacy Eye: balancing free speech against wrongful invasion
Sooner or later there will be a tort of privacy in Australia and the media might as well get used to the idea, writes Dr Denis Muller, who teaches media ethics at Swinburne University.
View ArticlePrivacy Eye: only the rich and powerful to benefit?
The complex debate on whether we need legal recognition of privacy rights has been artificially narrowed by News of the World frenzy, writes Luke Williams.
View ArticlePrivacy Eye: the challenge for the media
Media bosses assure us blatant disregard for the law is not part of the local scene but a broad-based inquiry into the media is in the offing, writes Peter Timmins, a lawyer and blogger.
View ArticlePrivacy Eye: media paranoia distorting facts on privacy tort
The media as a whole have got to get over their desperate paranoia, writes Roger Clark, chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation
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