The Role Of French Defamation And Privacy Laws In Keeping DSK’s ‘Secrets’
18th May 2011
Lots of people sympathize with the basic argument that your private life is private, and it seems unfair to have private affairs spread across the news. And yet, if someone really is doing something egregious — or potentially harmful — is seeking to gag the press and others from making that information public only giving them cover to progress further and commit potentially heinous acts?
How many times have we read stories about people attempting to investigate possible malfeasance on the part of an organization only to be firewalled by assertions that privacy policies (and sometimes privacy laws) don’t allow any information to be released?