JK Rowling on privacy and secrecy

I do not accept that just because something is not a secret (or possible to discover) means that it isn’t private and can therefore be published in a newspaper.

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Of course, had the information been made available […] there would have been no way of making the information
private again.

JK Rowling, written evidence to the Leveson inquiry.

This is a really interesting (and mind you, well written) piece on the dark side of public interest.

JK Rowling’s written witness statement to the Leveson inquiry