Privacy and blogging

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Don Park describes a witch a daily situation of bad behavior. This time,=20
someone unpacks the camera, makes photos and publishes them on his=20
blog. A witch-hunt is started with disastrous consequences for the life=20
of a young women who behaved in a wrong way:

http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=3De5e366f9-05=
0f-4901-98d2-b4d26bedc3e1

The question for me is: What is the policy - response to such a hunt?=20
How could we prevent this? The issue at hand is obviously that the=20
sanction of the society is completely disproportional to the initial=20
behavior.=20

It is clear that in many western countries, one's right to publicity or=20
one's right on one's own picture would give a handle. But the handle is=20
weak compared to the pace and violence of the impact of the violation=20
of her rights.

Is there a way we can start to measure privacy violations? How could=20
this impact stories like this one?

All in all, it is an interesting story that I wanted to share with you.

Best,=20

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Rigo Wenning            W3C/ERCIM
Staff Counsel           Privacy Activity Lead
mail:[email protected]        2004, Routes des Lucioles
http://www.w3.org/      F-06902 Sophia Antipolis


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