Who needs privacy? It’s a human right that isn’t just a concern for the rich and powerful wishing to shield their private lives from the media. Today, it’s an urgent issue for anyone who communicates online. Index on Censorship assesses the threats to our data, considers the impact of tabloid exposés on press standards, explores the world of internet trolls and talks to the UK’s leading privacy judge about striking the balance.   

MR JUSTICE EADY’s balancing act
BIRGITTA JÓNSDÓTTIR’s online wake-up call
BRIAN CATHCART takes on the privacy invaders
GUS HOSEIN & ERIC KING survey the age of insecurity

NATASHA LEHRER D’Artagnan’s tune
WHITNEY PHILLIPS Meet the trolls
PETER FLEISCHER Private lives
PAUL BERNAL Web spies
MARC ROTENBERG Strictly personal
PRASHANT IYENGAR Strange fruit
KATITZA RODRIGUEZ The politics of surveillance

YOANI SÁNCHEZ Cuba’s most celebrated blogger
IBRAHIM EISSA Mubarak’s nemesis
ANTHONY LESTER on blasphemy
Fiction by IBRAHIM AL KONI