Celebrities who court publicity will now receive less protection from the Press Complaints Commission if their privacy is infringed. The PCC - a self-regulatory organisation for the press – has published its revised Code of Conduct. In other changes, the press now have wider rights to break the Code where this is in the public interest; previously, they had to show how the public interest was served by their action, whereas they now only have to say that they 'reasonably believed' that it would be served.
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