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长久以来，英国法律并未将隐私权列为法定权利，对隐私的保护零散而有限。直至2000年10月，《欧洲人权公约》被纳入英国法律，才有了对私人生活、家庭、通信等隐私的明确保护。自此之后，发生了一系列具有重要意义的案例，如名模纳奥米·坎贝尔起诉《镜报》发布其离开戒毒所的照片、国际汽联主席莫斯利诉《世界新闻报》曝光其不雅照、《哈利波特》作者JK罗琳起诉媒体侵犯其幼子隐私等。英国对隐私权的保护也因而不断拓展完善，如在裁决中考虑披露的信息是否具有公共利益、私人场所与公共场合的划分、私人生活的界定、对儿童隐私权的保护，以及平衡隐私权与言论自由等。但直至今日，英国仍未制定专门的隐私保护法。“,”Historically, British courts offered very limited protection in respect of the invasion of privacy. In 2000, the European Convention of Human Rights was incorporated into English law, providing an explicit right for everyone to respect for private life, home and correspondence. Since then, the law of privacy in the UK has developed through a series of key cases like Camp-bell v. Mirror Group Newspapers, Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd., and Murray v Big Pictures (UK) Ltd., to name just a few. It could be seen that the privacy laws has been developing in the discussion of public interest, definition of private place and public place, scope of private life, the privacy of children, and the balance between individuals ’right to privacy and the freedom of speech, etc.