Offers detailed practical and authoritative guidance for practitioners and academics working on cases relating to media privacy law new to this edition updated with important developments including the leveson report von hannover no2 and axel springer trimingham and similar cases in the domestic courts . It is guaranteed under the right to freedom article 19 and the right to life article 21 of the constitution article 19 1 a guarantees all citizens the right to freedom of speech and expression it is the right to freedom of speech and expression that gives the media the right to publish any information. Social media and the law broad accessibility in privacy law there is a right to be forgotten however this right is becoming increasingly difficult to assert in the age of social media rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press commonly override privacy rights however not only are privacy rights difficult to assert in court they are also difficult to enforce on the internet. Folarin 2005155 also agrees that the right to privacy is a legal means by which consumers can control media content through suits instituted against the media in defence of their right relating to invasion of privacy which includes insulation from needless publication of private matters