Sir Cliff Richard v BBC ... Misuse of private information ... Judge makes editorial decisions and arbitrates on taste ... Conflating privacy and reputation ... While there is a public interest in a police investigation there is no public interest in identifying individuals subject to investigations ... Journalistic quality of the broadcast ... Public interest in the rule of law ... Consequences of the judge's findings ... From Paul Wragg in Inforrm ... more
Category: Privacy
FOI and the WA Public Transport Authority
Test for exempt "personal information" under Freedom of Information Act ... Supreme Court reverses finding of Information Commission ... Identification of people in the footage ... Seven Network seeking tapes of level-crossing near-misses ... Louise Hall reporting ... more
Sawa Pty Ltd v Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Not for publication: ABC fails to get secretly recorded video footage of animal cruelty released after it was first granted by a magistrate ...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
“JZ” and Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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
Privacy injunction granted following iCloud hack
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
False light: a new frontier for privacy law in Australia?
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
Sex on the net and the birth of a privacy law
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
Remedies for the serious invasion of privacy in NSW
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
Data protection claim against Google to go to trial
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
Professor Barry Spurr v At large Media Pty Ltd and Chris Graham
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
Weller v Associated Newspapers Limited
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
Human rights, privacy and surreptitious photography
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