COMM 2501 Lecture Notes - Voyeurism
6 May 2012
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Means fundamentally as media is concerned, the right to be left alone. The legal discussion about privacy is a grey area, historically no common law right to privacy in countries that have inherited their legal system from england. There was no anyone could sue for privacy. That carried over to other countries that base their legal systems from england. In 1977 wisconsin finally inhabited a privacy law to not have such abuses\ The court said that people ought to be able to sue for the invasion of privacy canadian court. Now in ontario people will be able to sue for the invasion of privacy from this decision. In england: eu statutes, they come from the member of the european union, european laws that protect privacy also had to be incorporated into english laws. England now has privacy laws as well but they are statute laws.
