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Bloggers beware as judge says authors do NOT have right to anonymity on the web.
Thousands of 'bloggers' could lose their cloak of anonymity after a landmark High Court ruling allowed the identification of a serving police officer who ran a controversial website.
Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of Richard Horton, the author of a blog called NightJack.
The 45-year-old detective constable with Lancashire Constabulary had sought an injunction to stop his name from being made public.
But the judge ruled that Mr Horton had no 'reasonable expectation' to anonymity because 'blogging is essentially a public rather than a private activity'.
The ruling is likely to have a knock-on effect for the thousands of other 'bloggers', who are now likely to be refused an injunction to stop newspapers from making their name public.
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Bloggers beware as judge says authors do NOT have right to anonymity on the web.
Thousands of 'bloggers' could lose their cloak of anonymity after a landmark High Court ruling allowed the identification of a serving police officer who ran a controversial website.
Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of Richard Horton, the author of a blog called NightJack.
The 45-year-old detective constable with Lancashire Constabulary had sought an injunction to stop his name from being made public.
But the judge ruled that Mr Horton had no 'reasonable expectation' to anonymity because 'blogging is essentially a public rather than a private activity'.
The ruling is likely to have a knock-on effect for the thousands of other 'bloggers', who are now likely to be refused an injunction to stop newspapers from making their name public.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE.























