Do the technological developments of the last few decades mean that privacy is dead?

The protection and management of privacy and reputation

Assignment:
Choose ONE of the following questions.

1) Journalist Nick Cohen wrote that the impact of defamation law was that ‘we cannot perform the first duty of journalists and speak in plain English without our newspapers accepting the risk of staggering legal costs’. Is he right, and does that mean that the reform campaign that led to the Defamation Act 2013
failed?

2) Does the rise of social media mean that traditional defamation law can no longer effectively protect people’s reputations? Illustrate your answer with examples.

3) Is the kind of privacy–abusive behaviour that the Leveson Inquiry exposed a price that we have to pay for a free press that can effectively hold powerful people and groups to account?

4) “There is a balance to be found between our individual right to privacy and our collective right to security.” Sir Malcolm Rifkind, then Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Critically discuss, with reference to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
5) Do the technological developments of the last few decades mean that privacy is dead?