Loaded did not invade woman’s privacy for including pictures from her Bebo page when she was 15 because the photos were in widespread use across the Internet

Loaded has been found not to have invaded a woman’s privacy, despite using pictures of her that had originally been posted on her page on the Bebo social networking site when she was 15. The Press Complaints Commission refused to rule against the lads magazine because the images were already so widespread on the Internet. The PCC questioned the taste and offence over the article and use of images particularly given her age, but those questions were not within its remit. What it could say was that her privacy had not been infringed because the images were already in wide circulation at the time Loaded published them. The PCC is a self-regulatory code of practice applicable to the printed publication industry.