At least, that’s according to The Sunday Telegraph, which reports that citizen journalism (i.e. people with camera phones) could be a new threat to the privacy of the royals, including Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton.
The problem appears to be that while the newspapers have told their photographers to lay off the courting couple, no such agreement exists for The Great British Public. Meanwhile, don’t forget that Prince Harry’s infamous Nazi fancy-dress outfit only got into the papers due to a mobile snap…
(via Picturephoning)
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About Stuart Dredge
They should move to France… http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/06/franceban/index.php
‘The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.’
Long live the revolution, hey brothers?
hard to tell if things are different these days. anyone who’s seen La Dolce Vita (the film that coined the term ‘paparazzi’ will realise these problems have been around for a long time. but ouor idea of privacy is changing – my girlfreinds all put pics of themselves all over facebook in poses I never would! i guess the difference is when you’re a royal people give a sh-t !
Perhaps they are worried that someone will finally get a good shot of Will’s ever growing bald spot. Don’t want to cast dispersions on those rock steady royal genes now do we.