<story><title>Gatwick drones pair &apos;no longer suspects&apos;</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajb257</author><text>Whilst a free press is important, I would argue that &amp;#x27;a man and a woman have been held in connection with the Gatwick Airport drone incident&amp;#x27; would suffice. Kudos to the BBC for recognising this.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they&amp;#x27;re actually found guilty of a crime. Publishing their names and pictures before _even being charged_ does nothing but open potentially innocent people up to danger.&lt;p&gt;Whoever caused the Gatwick chaos needs to be brought to justice, but this is beyond reckless</text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure the two of them are enjoying having their faces plastered over the sunday news (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;the_papers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;the_papers&lt;/a&gt;) and sorting through all the lovely messages they&amp;#x27;ve received over the last day or so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they&amp;#x27;re actually found guilty of a crime.&lt;p&gt;The press always say that naming people who&amp;#x27;ve been arrested is an important measure against authoritarian regimes. It allows the public to know whether police powers of arrest are being misused or not.&lt;p&gt;They appear to have lost this argument, because this is in tension with people&amp;#x27;s right to privacy and rights to a fair trial by the courts not by the media.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s some interesting info here about different approaches: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uknews&amp;#x2F;law-and-order&amp;#x2F;10063422&amp;#x2F;Police-should-name-arrested-suspects-that-are-already-identified-by-the-press-Theresa-May-says.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uknews&amp;#x2F;law-and-order&amp;#x2F;100634...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;apr&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;press-intrusion-name-suspects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;apr&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;press-intrusio...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Gatwick drones pair &apos;no longer suspects&apos;</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajb257</author><text>Whilst a free press is important, I would argue that &amp;#x27;a man and a woman have been held in connection with the Gatwick Airport drone incident&amp;#x27; would suffice. Kudos to the BBC for recognising this.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they&amp;#x27;re actually found guilty of a crime. Publishing their names and pictures before _even being charged_ does nothing but open potentially innocent people up to danger.&lt;p&gt;Whoever caused the Gatwick chaos needs to be brought to justice, but this is beyond reckless</text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure the two of them are enjoying having their faces plastered over the sunday news (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;the_papers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;the_papers&lt;/a&gt;) and sorting through all the lovely messages they&amp;#x27;ve received over the last day or so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>I would argue that publishing the names &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt; isn&amp;#x27;t particularly news-worthy. The right to privacy exists, too.&lt;p&gt;In the justice system it&amp;#x27;s the judge which rules a sentence. Years – or even decades – of public shaming doesn&amp;#x27;t seem fair to me. Committing a crime doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;re no longer dealing with a person with real feelings. Publishing names and photos strikes me as &amp;quot;2 minutes of hate&amp;quot;, and not &amp;quot;news&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Also note that it doesn&amp;#x27;t just affect the person(s). Family members or even completely unrelated people with similar names can get threatened.</text></comment>