Yes, it is quite clear that getting information from SOCA is like pulling teeth. So many questions and loose ends. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know more about what offences are in dispute? Have SOCA really been liaising with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or not? Who’s been sitting on what information, for how long, and why? Wouldn’t some more clarity on Project Riverside (here) be informative? Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: September 2013 (Page 3 of 3)
The common law protection of privacy has been slow to develop in Australia … Media law academic Dr David Rolph suggests this has everything to do with different media environments and, critically, with whose privacy is at stake. Continue reading
Does it show double standards to condemn David Miranda’s detention without criticising the arrest of journalists suspected of illegal phone hacking and bribery? There are news organisations that want us to believe it does. Continue reading
If you decide to keep a dangerous dog, well-known for its generally intemperate and often vicious nature, and ignore, or worse, deny the constant and sensible advice you are given pointing out the danger you can hardly expect much sympathy when that dog bites you. And so it is that David Cameron’s pitiful cries of foul play will fall on deaf ears. Continue reading
January 12th 2012 was Northern and Shell day at the Leveson inquiry. Northern and Shell is the parent company of Express Newspapers comprising the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and the Daily Star Sunday. Amongst questions asked were some about the use of private investigators, ‘search agencies’, payments, protocols and audit trails. Continue reading
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