[Pyramid*]

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.

[fruit_cake]

I thought that there was also a law about people in public positions having less rights to privacy though. I could be wrong

[Me. I Am Salman]

absolutely no way

[Beso]

Originally Posted by the truth

she wasnt perfect, but are they? what makes you think the monarchy stands for britons? what on earth relevance do they have to anyones life? isnt their entire history one of brutal rape, theft, butchery, murder and war?

isn't everyones