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Daily Dashboard | Press freedom vs. privacy in Paris attack photo case Related reading: OPC details lessons learned from CRA, ESDC breaches

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The New York Times reports on a case that’s pitting the freedom of the press against the dignity and privacy of an individual. On the night of the Paris attacks in November, Maya Vidon-White — a war photographer — took a photo of a man who had been shot, and later died, outside the Bataclan. The photo was published in a weekly magazine, VSD. After going to press, the Paris prosecutor’s office accused Vidon-White of breaking the Guigou law, which makes publishing photographs of victims of violent crimes without their permission a crime. The case not only highlights the rights of press vs. privacy, but also how to cover news events in an age of global communication. “Images zoom across the borders of states and societies with widely varying laws and sensibilities regarding privacy, potentially opening journalists to prosecution in ways they can hardly anticipate,” the report states. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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