‘Case not closed’
IN THE SENATE on Tuesday, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi made a telling admission. “It isn’t that we don’t have a right to privacy,” he told Independent Senator Paul Richards. “What I explained was that it is a qualified right and that the Judiciary has recognised that and called for better legislation to deal with privacy.” Mere days before, Al-Rawi had made a jaw-dropping claim. Far from saying there was a right to privacy – qualified or otherwise – the Attorney General told the country the right to privacy did not even exist as a right entrenched in our Constitution. “There is no enshrined right...
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