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9 January 2013updated 22 Oct 2020 3:55pm

Can Ned RocknRoll’s facebook pictures really be called “private”?

Cat's already out of the bag.

By Dominic Ponsford

Pictures of Ned RocknRoll taken at a private party were on Facebook for two and half years for all the world – and particularly James Pope’s 1,500 Facebook “friends” – to see. I understand that The Sun found them on a trawl of publicly-viewable Facebook pages. So how can they possibly now be considered private?

To find out we must await publication of Mr Justice Briggs’ reasoning, expected in nine days’ time, for his decision yesterday to uphold an interim privacy injunction first granted last week.

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