Privacy, Personal data and the press: the data protection issues that have to change
6 July 2011
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In the middle of the Major years (back in the 1990’s), David Mellor, then a Cabinet Minister (whose fascination for female toes was discussed by the tabloids, in the “public interest” of course) famously said that the press were drinking at “the last chance saloon”. Fifteen years of hard drinking later, the recent events into phone hacking shown that some journalists and editors were too drunk to notice. In this fast moving field, there are four data protection issues to
