OF late, the principle of privacy has been talked about almost as much as the private lives of the famous.
As the superinjunction saga unrolled, amid outrage that wealthy men were taking advantage of gagging orders, prurience at who might have been exposed on Twitter, and complaints about limits to freedom of expression, the notion that we need a formal privacy law has taken hold in Britain. Voices -- most often those of celebrities -- had started calling for a legal change. But all that ground to a halt last week when the arrest in America of a senior financier caused us to question not only the idea of a UK privacy law, but those of other countries.
