WMF — Social net­work­ing, pri­vacy and the press — Eve Salomon, Press Com­plaints Commission

We need to know how to motiv­ate users to take pri­vacy on board — gives example of 17 yr old son and Facebook.

Can a pho­to­graph not show­ing private beha­viour be classed as private out­side copy­right issues? Even if mater­ial is private there can be good reas­ons to breach pri­vacy, e.g. You­Tube video of kids fire­bomb­ing cargo train.

New ques­tions of informed con­sent. 3rd party dis­clos­ure. Stand­ards and fair­ness. Should ‘viral’ mater­ial be pub­lished? Can be good reas­ons for publication.

Respons­ib­il­ity shared between pub­lic, par­ents, sites. Make it easier for users to pro­tect and pull down their material.

Basic self-regulation is flex­ible and respons­ible enough to cope with chan­ging land­scape. ENDS

Chris Bry­ant MP: I have left Gay­dar, but I do have journ­al­ists as friends on Face­book and I use it for cam­paign­ing. More issues come to me from Face­book than from my sur­ger­ies in the constituency.

Inter­net gath­ers diaspora.

Abil­ity for people to show world them­selves without embar­rass­ment has increased, so has pruri­ence. Diver­gence between media which has become more judg­mental, and soci­ety which has become less judgmental.

Media need to exer­cise same stand­ards online as offline.