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WHEN PRIVACY BECOMES CONTENT: The Dangerous normalisation of leaked private conversations, By KEN HARRIES, ESQ — National Accord Newspaper %

There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society possible. That point is reached when a private telephone conversation is allegedly recorded, extracted from its original context and released into the public

BrandEconomy » FEATURES » WHEN PRIVACY BECOMES CONTENT: The Dangerous Normalisation of Leaked Private Conversations

The latest controversy surrounding an audio recording purported to be a telephone conversation between Senator Godswill Akpabio and Sandra C. Duru, a.k.a. Professor Mgbeke, therefore deserves to be examined beyond the personalities involved. It raises a much larger question: What happens to a society when private conversations become raw material for public propaganda?

When privacy becomes content: The dangerous normalisation of leaked private conversations, by Ken Harries

There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society possible. That point is reached when a private telephone conversation is allegedly recorded, extracted from its original context and released into the public domain as political ammunition. The […]

When Privacy Becomes Content: The Dangerous Normalisation of Leaked Private Conversations

By Ken Harries, Esq. There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society possible. That point is reached when a private telephone conversation is allegedly recorded, extracted from its original context and released into the public domain […]