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Privacy and Media Intrusion, UK Parliament committee



Anyone in the UK want to send these kind folks a word?
Ken in MD

from:http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/culture__media_and_sport/cms_021219.cfm

Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Session 2002/03

19 December 2002
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New inquiry:
Privacy and Media Intrusion

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee agreed in July 2002 to include an inquiry into privacy and media intrusion in its forward programme as soon as the timetable allowed. This inquiry will take place in February and March 2003. This area was last examined in 1993 by the then National Heritage Committee  see Privacy and Media Intrusion, Fourth Report, 1992-93, HC 294).

Issues

The Committees priority in this inquiry is the treatment by the press and the Commission of people not generally in public life who nonetheless have found themselves to be the focus of media attention for one reason or another.

The Committee will not examine the merits of any individual complaint except for the purposes of illustrating a general point but it is very interested to hear from victims of media intrusion, or their representatives, about their experiences including their experience of the subsequent steps taken to complain or otherwise seek redress and the satisfaction, or otherwise, received. On this basis written evidence is invited from any interested organisation or individual. Those wishing to submit evidence may like to structure their memoranda around the following themes:

 the constitution and performance of the various medias systems for complaints, including: within the BBC, the Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Press Complaints Commission;

 the relationship between media freedom and media responsibility and the balance between self-regulation and independence from the industry being regulated;

 the behaviour and record of the media over the last ten years, and especially the press since the establishment of the Press Complaints Commission;

 the adequacy of the various codes of practice in operation;

 from the industry as manifested in the Commission, Appointments Committee, the Codes and the Code Committee;

 the mechanics of the various complaints procedures including provision for independent, or third party, complaints and/or proactive monitoring by the complaints bodies themselves;

 the sanctions available.

The Committee would also be interested to receive views on the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 in this area and the case for specific legislation on the protection of privacy and/or a statutory press ombudsman (for example as recommended in the previous Committees 1993 Report).

Written evidence must be submitted by Friday 7 February 2003. It is most helpful if your submission can be e-mailed in a Word format followed by a signed letter by post verifying the memorandum. The Committees e-mail address is cmscom@parliament.uk. Oral evidence sessions will take place during February and March 2003.


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