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ARTICLE · 09 JUNE 2016

The trouble with privacy injunctions

A privacy injunction has effect in a jurisdiction in which it is issued, so the internet may need a global jurisdiction.

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What kind of world is this? Where judges in the highest courts say we must live in ignorance. Ignorance of truths. Truths fundamental to our very being. Like which celebrity's spouse had a threesome that may or may not have involved a paddle pool full of olive oil.

Over in Merry Ol' England there are laws recognising and protecting people's right to privacy. We don't have laws like that in Australia. But over there you can get injunctions preventing the publication of private matters, naming of names and the like. You can sometimes even get an injunction that is so secret that you can't even publish the fact that an injunction has been issued. Those ones are called super-injunctions.

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