On 27/09/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Well, not everyone lives in the US.
The UK passed Human Rights Act 1998 in response to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Wikimedia is not subject to UK law in any meaningful sense. Try and pay attention.
-- geni
Yes, actually, Wikimedia is, in the sense that in the UK, material is considered published in the location where it is read. For material on the internet, that is the whole world. Non-British people have sued non-British people in the UK for defamation. I don't know about foreigners suing foreigners for privacy violations in the UK, but privacy does seem to be covered by the same part of the Human Rights Act as defamation, so I wouldn't rule it out.
http://www.globaljournalist.org/magazine/2004-2/libel-tourism.html