{"id":5572,"date":"2011-06-27T10:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2011-06-27T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:17:17","slug":"john-kampfner-evidence-to-the-bbc-radio-4-pm-privacy-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"John Kampfner: Evidence to the BBC Radio 4 PM Privacy Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 4&#8217;s PM programme is currently holding a &#8220;privacy commission&#8221;, chaired by Sir Michael Lyons, Lord Faulks and Baroness Liddell, examining where the balance lies between an individual&#8217;s right to privacy and the public&#8217;s right to know.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>John Kampfner, Index on Censorship chief executive, appeared before the commission on Wednesday 22 June 2011. While the Article 8 right to privacy was very important, he argued, he would &#8220;rather err on the side of a media that is a little bit overly troublesome than one that is pliant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/pm\/pmprivacy-kampfner.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The audio and full transcript can be found at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other witnesses to the PM Privacy Commission include: Hugh Tomlinson QC; Zac Goldsmith MP; Max Mosley; Stephen Abell; Hugh Grant; Sir Charles Gray; Alan Rusbridger; Helen Wood; Max Clifford; Marcus Partington; Christopher Graham and Louise Mensch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Kampfner<\/strong>:  Evidence to the BBC Radio 4 PM Privacy Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[401,14220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}