I don’t follow alot of blogs, frankly because there are too many of them, but I was very happy to see a new Irish blog released, cearta.ie.
Eoin O’ Dell, a member of Digital Rights Ireland, has started the blog, “cearta” (Irish for “rights”).
Eoin is Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, and also a director of Digital Rights Ireland.
He has a wonderful post “What is the right of privacy for?” in which he discusses a recent wardrobe malfunction including a GAA player and his private parts.
In the language of the European and English cases, he could have had no reasonable expectation of privacy in such circumstances. Since his privacy had not been invaded, his claim for damages for invasion of privacy should have failed.
It has always seemed to me that the right to privacy is there to provide a rememdy for the publication of private facts, and this publication is often embarassing and humiliating, but it is not there to provide a remedy for embarassment or humiliation per se.
This is really great to have someone as knowledgeable as Eoin Mr O’ Dell writing opinion like this in public.
Please add his feed to your newsreader.
Congratulations Eoin. Keep it up. If I may make one comment, when you find the button, can you turn on full texts in your feed? It makes it much easier to read all your blog posts.
Its under Options, then “Syndication Feeds”, then “For each article, show:” full text.
[Disclaimer: If it is needed, I help out with DRI as media contact. I have never met Eoin, but I am sure he is a gentleman!]
[tags] eoin o dell , digital rights ireland , digital rights , ireland , irishblogs , runningwithbulls [/tags]
