Media intrusion into grief: lessons from the Pike River mining disaster

Moreham, N. A.; Tinsley, Yvette

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“…One of these witnesses, actress Sienna Miller (2011) asserted that her email accounts had been hacked and such intrusions made her nervous and paranoid. In New Zealand, a study of the Pike River Mining disaster also revealed the extent of privacy invasions to victims’ families in which a participant of the study claimed that her privacy is being robbed because she was being watched literally the whole time by the media photographers (Moreham and Tinsley, 2016: 115, 127). In Hong Kong, a number of incidents also demonstrated the vulnerability of such victims.…”

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In search of a privacy action against breaches of physical privacy in Hong Kong

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2018

Common Law World Review

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The focus of privacy laws in Hong Kong has always been on the use and dissemination of personal or confidential information, but a person’s privacy can also be intruded by unwanted watching or listening irrespective of whether information is collected or used. Despite an attempt to introduce two privacy torts by the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong in 2004, there is no timetable as to when these two statutory torts be introduced. Recognition has been afforded for intrusions upon seclusion or solitude in a number of jurisdictions including New Zealand and the Canadian province of Ontario. In England, an intrusion tort has not been separately recognized, but the decision in Gulati v MGN confirmed that damages may still be awarded for an action for misuse of private information in instances where there is no disclosure or publication of the wrongfully acquired information. This article looks at the possibility of developing a common law action of privacy in Hong Kong which affords protection regardless of whether private information is acquired or published by drawing insights to the developments in New Zealand and England.

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In search of a privacy action against breaches of physical privacy in Hong Kong

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Media intrusion into grief: lessons from the Pike River mining disaster

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In search of a privacy action against breaches of physical privacy in Hong Kong

In search of a privacy action against breaches of physical privacy in Hong Kong

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