On air 1100GMT: Is it a good thing there's less privacy now?
| 09:54 UK time, Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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This topic was discussed on 26 April 2011. Listen to the programme.
One of the most trending topics on twitter is Andrew Marr. He's a high profile 91Èȱ¬ presenter who won a High Court order so that the media couldn't talk about his extramarital affair. These so-called gagging orders (and there have been a spate of them recently from footballers and actors in the UK) bring up quite a few questions about freedom of speech and freedom of information, not least for a journalist who takes out one.
Today, because he has become one of the first famous figures to waive his right to secrecy, he says it's because he was embarrassed by the injunction and that the use of these types of court orders by wealthy celebrities has got and in his words 'out of control' So now that's one type of privacy, what are your thoughts on it? Should celebrities be afforded this type of privacy? calls it 'a privacy law for the rich'
Now, what about that other story that was trending this week , some were alarmed by this but did it stop you using your Iphone? Not me...
The fact we can tweet and text from anywhere means today - for example - (yes it's another trending topic) gives us a better - if still incomplete version of what's happening in the world.
So we we live more transparently - is it a good thing that there's no such thing as real privacy anymore?
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