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Suicide bid on CCTV may herald new privacy law: A man whose suicide attempt was captured by his local council's CCTV cameras and released to newspapers and TV companies won a landmark ruling yesterday from the European court of human rights, which lawyers said could usher in a new privacy law in Britain.
The Strasbourg court ruled that Geoffrey Peck's right to respect for his private life was violated and that he had no remedy under the UK's existing privacy law. The court awarded him £7,800 in damages, and nearly £12,000 costs.