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