Privacy After Max Mosley:

24. The law has gone some way to developing principles protecting an individual’s
right of privacy guaranteed by Art 8 but there is further to go. There is increased
recognition that even celebrities and public figures have a right to a distinct and
protected private life and that eating into their private space cannot be justified by
simple reliance on somewhat irrational generalisations such as “courting publicity”
or “acting as a role model”. Von Hannover is likely to have increasing influence on
the development of English privacy law.
Robert Deacon
Autumn 2008
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