In The Sydney Morning Herald, Paul Ritchie makes the argument that the "time has come for a public debate about legislating a right to privacy." There will be resisters, Ritchie writes, but new media make the need for a legislated right to privacy essential. "What we need is protection of what is private or what should be private," he says. "This applies as much to the private photos of a footballer as to the old medical records of a politician."
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