ECtHR: Right to privacy not necessarily violated by repeated publication of private pictures
by Sofie Luise BurgerThe European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on 17 march 2016 (Application no.16313/10) that the repeated publication of pictures of a famous footballer’s children by the same tabloids over a lengthy period of time does not necessarily violate article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
Kahn vs. Germany - Right to privacy not necessarily violated by repeated publication of private pictures
The applicants, born in 1998 and 2003 are the children of a very famous German football player. Between 2004 and 2009, two tabloids owned by the same publisher had repeatedly published several articles…