This Privacy Thing

Why should the law protect anything but the minimum in terms of privacy?

Certainly it should be unlawful to tap my telephone without a court order
and bugging my home or workplace, taking long-range photos of me in my own
home against my wishes should be banned but if I, a famous footballer,
decides to shag my way through the female element of fandom then why should
fact be hidden from the public, my corporate sponsors or my wife?

I don't believe that Max Mosley had any right to complain about the
revelation that he had been involved in some group SM sex activity with a
bunch of consenting, adult women; what he had a right to complain about was
the lie that somehow there were Nazi aspects to the orgy. That was a lie
and he quite rightly won his case but that does not mean that his sexual
activities must be kept under the protection of the law.

Provided the story is true then the media should be allowed to publish it if
they think anybody will be interested.

John Waghorne