Max Mosley - European Privacy Laws

European Privacy Laws

Further information: Mosley v United Kingdom

In 2008 Mosley won a court case against the News of the World newspaper which had alleged his involvement in a sex act involving some female prostitutes, on the grounds that it had breached his privacy. As a result, in 2009 Mosley brought a case against the UK's privacy laws in the European Court of Human Rights, in a bid to force newspapers to warn people before exposing their private lives so they could have the opportunity to seek a court injunction. The case was rejected by the court on 10 May 2011. In July 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported that Mosley was financially guaranteeing the court costs of claimants who may have been subjected to phone hacking by the News of the World. Mosley refused to comment at the time, he later gave a TV interview to the BBC and telephone interview to Reuters where he confirmed the story. Mosley later tried to stop Google searches from returning web pages which referenced the News of the World story, even though Google do not host the web pages in question.

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