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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...re-paltry.html

Privacy rules are based on Article 9 of the Civil Code which states: “Everyone has the right to privacy”, which dates back to 1970.

This right, which became part of the constitution in 1995, includes not only the disclosure of a person's private life but also the unauthorised taking of photographs and their publication.


Protection for “the intimacy of private life” is bolstered by the article’s second paragraph, which enables a court to submit an interlocutory order to put a stop to violations of this right by whatever means.

The maximum criminal sentence for breaching private life or “fixing, recording or transmitting the image of a person in a private place without their consent” is a year’s imprisonment and a 45,000-euro fine.


“The law protecting people’s private lives, forbidding publishing photographs without their consent, is much stricter fashion than anywhere else in Europe,” said Jean-Luc Soulier, a lawyer specialising in defamation and privacy law. "

“But that doesn’t stop magazines like Closer or Voici from publishing such photos almost every week, as their circulation figures are so high that fines generally never go above a few tens of the thousands of euros. This is too weak to dissuade such magazines,” he said

there's your answer as far as the Law is concerned. do they have a right? No.