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Subject: [ISN] What You Can Learn From Prince Harry's Revealing Trip To Vegas
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-08-28 8:51:06
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/27/five-privacy-lessons-to-be-learned-from-prince-harrys-embarrassing-trip-to-vegas/
By Kashmir Hill
Forbes.com
8/27/2012
If you've been following the coverage of Prince Harry's recent trip to
Las Vegas, you're likely very, very tired of hearing jokes about the
"crown jewels." The day after one reporter (ironically) recounted the
British prince remarking to a security guard that he "had to be careful
or else he'd be ‘up on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube thanks to
somebody's mobile phone camera,'" photos of the prince sans princely
attire were published on TMZ, thanks to somebody's mobile phone camera
snapping away during a game of ‘strip billiards.'
The photos spread faster, farther and wider than the British Empire
during its heyday, leading to some pity for a 27-year-old who seems to
have difficulty steering clear of social media scandals.
News Corp titan Rupert Murdoch urged on Twitter to, "Give him a break.
He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves
him, even to enjoy Las Vegas." Ironically, that was the day after the
News Corp-owned Sun published the photos in its newspaper, despite
warnings from the Royal Family's lawyers that it would violate press and
privacy laws. The Sun argued that the photos are already very much in
the public domain, and that publishing them is thus no longer a privacy
violation. (TMZ and the phone photographer took care of that.) It's yet
another example of Britain's byzantine press privacy laws struggling to
keep up with a world in which information is very difficult to contain,
as when a Scottish newspaper flouted a "superinjunction" on the press
not to reveal the identity of a soccer star involved in a sex scandal
after his identity became widely known thanks to Twitter.
You are not Prince Harry. Naked photos of you and tales of your partying
ways probably won't fetch a pretty penny from gossip blogs, but we all
do live in a world where our foibles can go public rather easily. The
prince's folly offers up some privacy lessons that could be relevant to
you, even if you don't have royal blood flowing through your veins.
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