Category: Privacy & the media

The prince and the ‘professional liar’: inside Harry’s battle against the Daily Mail

How the celebrity-backed legal action against one of Britain’s most powerful newspapers fell apart On 26 January 2015, Hugh Grant entertained an unusual guest at an exclusive venue in one of London’s most affluent...

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‘It ruined my night’: photographers accused of targeting women at St Andrews May Dip

Students taking part in university’s annual ritual say images of them in swimwear are being published without consent in national newspapersWhen the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students...

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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the...

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The Hack review – the astonishing story of phone-hacking makes for remarkably dull TV

Jack Thorne’s lacklustre script – full of cringe-making lines, strange dreamlike sequences and a recurring dung beetle – fails to capture the drama of the Guardian’s landmark investigation into media...

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No Man Is an Island: a British society and its historic push for gay rights

This creative documentary immerses us in a little-known chapter of gay history. In 1992, the Isle of Man was one of the last places in western Europe to decriminalise homosexual acts. Through verbatim reconstruction and newly...

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Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire

Exclusive: Former British PM urges police to reopen inquiry – and claims media executive Will Lewis attempted to incriminate himI have now spoken to police officers who say they were misled by Murdoch’s empire. I...

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UK police special enquiry team to examine role of Washington Post chief in email deletions

Exclusive: Scotland Yard move on complaint by ex-PM Gordon Brown, who accuses Will Lewis of phone hacking ‘cover-up’ in 2011First Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a...

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Prince Harry settles rest of Mirror Group phone-hacking claims

Publisher agrees to pay substantial damages and legal costs of Duke of SussexThe Duke of Sussex has settled the remaining parts of his phone-hacking claim against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the high court has...

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Steve Coogan: phone-hacking ruling reveals ‘systemic concealment’

Actor and comedian says Prince Harry’s partial high court win shows need for tighter press regulationSteve Coogan has said the Duke of Sussex’s partial victory in a high court phone-hacking claim shows there is an...

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Prince Harry hails phone-hacking case win as ‘great day for truth’

Duke awarded £140,600 in damages after judge rules articles were product of hacking or unlawful information gathering‘A warning to all media organisations’: Prince Harry’s statementPrince Harry has hailed...

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Prince Harry wins partial victory in phone-hacking case against Daily Mirror

Royal had accused publisher of hacking phones and other illegal behaviour to obtain scoops about his private lifePrince Harry has partially won his phone-hacking case against the Daily Mirror, after a judgment that has major...

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