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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has waded into the debate over super-injunctions, saying current privacy laws are a “human rights violation”. The online encyclopaedia has fallen foul of UK privacy law in recent weeks, with details about those using ...



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Mr. Wales said his personal view was that privacy laws were "grave injustices and human rights violations”.

“They should be done away with as quickly as possible. There should be no law constraining people from publishing legally obtained, factual information,” he said.

Exceptions to this would be information that was life-threatening, such as troop movements.

“But we aren't talking about that. This is embarrassing facts about politicians and celebrities”.

Which is why Wikipedia contains all publicly available information about Carolyn Doran.

And as for Jimbo, what about that trailor park home and that love-child? Would it be excessively POV to title that last header in his BLP something like

== Sperm theft 2010 ==

Or maybe just

== JimboLeaks ==