Bloggers Beware ; Blogging Is 'Essentially a Public Activity, and Confidentiality of Identities Is Not Legally Protected
Summary
Time for bloggers such as the 'fakeiplplayer' to exercise some caution. A recent ruling by a British court has allowed The Times newspaper to unmask the identity of an award-winning blogger who was earlier just known as "Night Jack An English Detective. A popular blog, it chronicles the life of an unnamed police officer in an English town and talks about how officers struggle with police bureaucracy. Night Jack also won the prestigious Orwell prize for political writing. But recently, The Times did some sleuthing to reveal his real identity detective constable Richard Horton of Lancashire Police.
A blogger's privacy: Horton's lawyers argued that bloggers would be "horrified if their anonymity wasn't safeguarded. They also pleaded on grounds of "public interest as the blog contains opinions on many sociopolitical issues relating to the police and the administration of justice.See the full content of this document
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Bloggers Beware ; Blogging Is 'Essentially a Public Activity, and Confidentiality of Identities Is Not Legally Protected
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