Category: Privacy

Not for publication: ABC fails to get secretly recorded video footage of animal cruelty released after it was first granted by a magistrate ... Privacy trumps public interest according to WA Supreme Court Justice John Chaney ... Carmel Galati reports ... more

Australian Information Commissioner finds insufficient public interest in an FOI request for cabinet documents containing details of a former federal MP’s inappropriate behaviour towards a female public servant in a Hong Kong bar … Justin Pen reports ... more

The Duchess of Cambridge’s sister is granted a continuing privacy injunction in respect of all her material stored on iCloud, after it was hacked … The UK High Court warns of criminal prosecution ... more

With the settlement of Gina Rinehart’s action over the mini-series House of Hancock, Australia has missed the opportunity to test a novel form of privacy claim – “false light” ... Hannah Ryan reports ... more

The internet has created new opportunities for invasions of privacy, but does that necessarily mean we need a new set of laws? Sydney media lawyer Tim Senior thinks we have sufficient remedies in existing laws ... more

Do we really need another report recommending a privacy law? Sydney media lawyer Sally McCausland reviews the latest proposals from a NSW parliamentary committee and finds that some important questions remain unanswered ... more

Max Mosley’s campaign to “clean up” internet images depicting him engaged in sado-masochistic games with prostitutes gets a boost from the English High Court …. In this Inforrm article London barrister Lorna Skinner examines the implications for Google and others ... more

Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney questions whether or not Professor Barry Spurr has a cause of action at all in relation to the publication of his “private” emails by the New Matilda website … Interim injunction stays ... more

Paparazzi, beware … A recent UK judgment saw the children of pop singer Paul Weller awarded damages over photographs taken in California without their consent … Alexia Bedat examines the decision in this Inforrm article ... more

European Court of Human Rights rules on privacy and surreptitious photography … James Michael, writing for Inforrm, looks at what it means for paparazzi and others ... more

Princess Caroline of Monaco loses another privacy claim in the European Court of Human Rights … The court finds a photograph of the Princess and her husband taken without their knowledge and published in 2002 “had made a contribution to a debate of general interest” ... more

QLD District Court judgment leaves open actions for invasion of privacy and breach of confidence against Yahoo! and a man who allegedly posted sexually explicit and offensive comments on a fake internet profile ... more