by Sydney Smith on Mar 19, 2016
Hulk Hogan wins Sex Tape Lawsuit, Gawker to pay $115 Million
Gawker was ordered to pay former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan $115 million after losing a jury trial case over showing...
Invasion of Privacy
by Sydney Smith on Mar 17, 2016
Sydney Morning Herald apologizes for Outing Gay Rights Protesters in 1978
Last month, the Sydney Morning Herald apologized for its reporting nearly 40 years ago on gay rights protesters, which included...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 15, 2016
Google Changes ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in EU, Japan Orders Google to Remove some Search Listings
Google is getting rid of a way around the "Right to Be Forgotten" in the European Union. As iMediaEthics has previously...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2016
How Human Rights Group WITNESS Advises Ethical use of Eyewitness Footage
Human rights advocacy group WITNESS released ethics guidelines for the use of eyewitness footage last October. "Some eyewitness videos have the potential...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 08, 2016
IDing Sexual Assault Victim gets Former Sun Editor David Dinsmore Convicted
Did you know that you could be convicted of breaking Britain's Sexual Offenses Act for publishing information that identifies a sexual assault...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 03, 2016
Scottish Daily Record, Times Shouldn’t Have Named Possible Victim of Sexual Assault
A man who identified as a victim of a sexual assault complained about five Scottish news outlets' articles about his case. He told the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 01, 2016
Australian News Outlet Broke Suicide Reporting Guidelines, Trains Staff after complaint
The Pakenham Gazette, a weekly Australian newspaper, included too much information about a young man's suicide, didn't contact his family before...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2016
Local UK paper IDs ‘Caped Crusader’ on ‘Circumstantial Evidence,’ a ‘Serious Failure’ of Accuracy, says IPSO, UK regulator
Who was that masked man? A local UK newspaper thought it knew, but unleashed the UK regulator when it identified...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2016
BuzzFeed Fail? Why did BuzzFeed Publish a Story that Harms, Invades Privacy of Random Girl?
BuzzFeed went online, found something nasty happening to a random person, and then told everyone about it. This is news?...