VITAMEDIAS
Privacy laws only protect the rich, editors insist: National newspaper editors have lambasted MPs' demands for a privacy law, warning such legislation would hamper investigative reporting, protect only the rich and famous and allow corruption to go unchecked. [...]
The Independent's editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner, said: "I welcome almost all the suggestions to strengthen the press complaints commission and achieve greater transparency - but a privacy law is a step too far.
"The main danger of a privacy law is it will act, as it does in France, and will be a curb against investigative journalism."