St Francis de Sales & St Mary Magdalene

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Yep, they can

Dr dear Dr: Maybe you could elucidate how privacy rights work especially for the rich and famous, and even for the not so rich and famous?

Yep, the royals can nowadays sue magazines and newspapers when say they publish private letters of royals to their parents or pictures of royal children without the consent of their parents, this much is guaranteed in the human rights laws arising from a series of test cases, and from a rights perspective, this is how the law presently obtaining puts it: The HRA 98 grants a private civil action to parties who can show there has been some infringement of their privacy rights to a personal life and also to parties who can show there has been an infringement on privacy vis a vis in family life. This much is guaranteed by the law of HRA 98 [00].