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Privacy laws
Why the campaign against anonymity is an attack on free speech
There’s a growing campaign against online anonymity from governments, corporations and even the media. It’s dangerous.
Privacy 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.
Privacy 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.
Privacy 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.
Privacy 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.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: Privacy Eye
“A statutory right to privacy is one very small shield against a vast effort to find out everything about you.”
What happens when you extend the idea of public interest to privacy?
There’s an inevitability about the renewed debate over privacy laws. The Australian media is ready for the fight, with complex questions over how any framework would operate.
What are the legalities of the St Kilda photo scandal?
It’s the media’s ultimate Christmas gift — naked photos, embarrassed footballers and a net-savvy teenage girl. But since the St Kilda photo scandal has legal implications of the images’ release mounting by the day, Crikey decided to hit the books to find out the facts.
Online privacy dangers: they’re not what you think
Forget your drunken photos on Facebook. They already know about them, and you know they know. Don’t worry about tracking cookies either. It’s what you don’t know they know that you should worry about.
Rundle: News of the World hacking — this will run and run
A dozen figures are now undertaking legal action against News Ltd, including John Prescott, comedian Steve Coogan and actress Siena Miller, and the number has been growing daily.
Crikey Says: Keep the kids out of it
It’s one thing for a gossip rag to roll around in this stuff about Tim Mathieson’s daughter. It’s another thing for the nation’s highest selling newspaper to concoct a story around it.
Keating slams media hypocrisy
University PR flaks buzzed anxiously as Crikey arrived at the University of Melbourne’s Carrillo Gantner Theatre last night to witness Paul Keating wade into the election campaign via a well-researched speech on the media’s notorious allergy to privacy.
SPEECH: Paul Keating on privacy in the information age
Former prime minister Paul Keating is delivering a speech to the Centre for Advance Journalism, University of Melbourne, tonight on the ‘privacy imperative in the information age’. Crikey has the speech.
A legal look at the Lara Bingle case
Lara Bingle (and Max Markson, naturally) is taking Brendan Fevola to court for breach of privacy, defamation and misuse of her image. But does she really have a case? Legal experts Jason Bosland and Vicki Huang take the stand.
Keating on the stairs: beating or beat up?
Insiders say a Sunday Telegraph alleging Paul Keating’s daughter kicked and threatened to kill one of its photographers was at best a beat-up, and at-worst a total fabrication.
PODCAST: Michael Kirby: Why privacy matters
“In the age of the internet, stories that once would have been wrapping the fish and chips and forgotten a few weeks or months or years later
are preserved forever,” says former High Court justice Michael Kirby in this speech for Privacy Victoria.
Is Della Bosca’s sex life really a public interest story?
With The Daily Tele’s eagerness to break the John Della Bosca sex scandal and destroy his political career, what will this mean for future issues involving politicians, privacy and matters of public interest?
Privacy case costs News of the World almost £1m
Defending a story they ran about F1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life has cost the News of the World almost £1m.
Surveillance: an unregulated part of our everyday lives?
There are concerns that because the line between genuine news and entertainment has become blurred, surveillance isn’t always carried out in the public interest, writes Neil Rees.
Hanson: Media Watch ‘dangerous’, Press Council waits
Last night’s Media Watch program suggested John Hartigan’s campaign against proposed privacy legislation had been undermined by the publication of the nude “Pauline Hanson” photos, writes Margaret Simons.
Privacy is not in the interests of the Labor Party
Putting aside the systemic breach of privacy that a database like Electrac entails, it relies on the goodwill and maturity of MPs and their staff to ensure that such a database isn’t abused, writes Bernard Keane.
Right to privacy sends media into a spin
The Australian Law Reform Commission has thrown down the gauntlet to two of Australia’s most powerful entities in its report on privacy, launched by John Faulkner and Robert McClelland in Sydney this morning, writes Bernard Keane.
