Media, law, ethics and regulation The court ruling in one of the recent cases of Naomi Campbell's affair with the Daily Mirror has further highlighted the issue regarding privacy laws. Naomi filed two complaints, one against MGM Limited and the other against Vanessa Frisbee. The first case involved two of the articles in the periodical Daily Mirror relating to Campbell's drug addiction and a photograph of her leaving a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. The issue in the case revolves around privacy law in the UK, with Naomi claiming that the Daily Mirror violated its balance by publishing her photo and making certain personal and confidential information public. It is not that Naomi claimed to have made it public that she was a drug addict, but that the Daily Mirror had breached her right to privacy under the Human Rights Act as well as the Protection Act data from 1998. Although the court rejected the privacy law complaint under the Human Rights Act, instead on the grounds that the published information was not too confidential , but the second allegation concerns the violation of data protection law and the right to privacy under the Human Rights Act, Article 8 of the European Law (Lubbock, 2003). The Convention on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression under Article 10 concluded that the media were free to implement their freedom to “set the record straight”. The Court identified that it did not need to consider whether there was a tort of breach of confidentiality under English law and concluded that the Human Rights Act had considerable influence on UK law on confidentiality. So, from the point of view of computer law, perhaps, in essence, the Court's remarkable decision regarding the study of the claim ...... middle of paper ...... drug addict. So what seems more likely is that in the future the media will be more careful in choosing a celebrity to expose to the public and that the celebrity will choose in no time to go to court for any information she does not wish to disclose. public and was made public. References Lubbock, Mark (2003) “I want to be alone” – the Naomi Campbell cases. Information Technology Briefing Cozens, Claire, 'Weak' Campbell affair offers no protection to media, says lawyer, Tuesday October 15, 2002, Guardian Unlimited, http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story /0,7525,811913,00.html “Naomi Campbell Wins Privacy Case,” March 28, 2002, CNN.com, http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/ 03/27/england.campbell/ “A defeat for Naomi Campbell, a victory for privacy? October 18, 2002, Legal Commentary, http://www.legalday.co.uk/lexnex/simkins/simkins181002a.htm