I really enjoyed my Media Law lecture about confidentiality and privacy, and picked up on something which was one of the many things I researched at home. This was a case between an author of a blog and the Times Newspapers Ltd. I found out that Richard Horton is a detective constable with Lancashire Constabulary, and a former blogger. As the author of the Orwell Prize-winning anonymous blog ‘NightJack’, his descriptions recounted incidents and comments about his work place as a police officer.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, it made me think about the way Horton used his blog as a platform for sharing private or confidential information about his work place, and that it’s important you don’t use your blog to do this as it goes public with the click of a button.
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