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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
But this is not the point. If a 40 year old woman looks 30, you can say that she aged well, she took care of herself, etc., but you know that she is 40. As an actress she might be less likely to get a part for a 30 year old woman, because in people's minds she will be a good looking 40 year old woman.
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I would imagine the majority of the public wouldn't know her age when they see her in a film. They may go on IMDB later to lookup what else she's done and think, she's 107, she looks good for her age and that's about it.
If companies are not giving her work because of her age, even if she looks good for the part and has the talent, then it's they who are age discriminating. Of course, that's probably hard to prove which is why she's gone after IMDB, however that doesn't make what she's tried to do right imo.
As for privacy, celebs may give up a degree of privacy for been in the public eye, however I feel newspapers often go too far. When a celeb is followed 24/7 just waiting for them to make a mistake that can become front page news, there's something wrong.
As the Leveson enquiry put quite well, what the public is interested in is not always in the public interest. When it comes to privacy invasions, that should only ever occur when it's in the public interest and gossip/many photo based stories are most certainly not.
Edit: Regarding information already been in the public domain, that's a tricky area imo. For example, people who have committed minor crimes, made mistakes in the past or just reports accusing them of something that was never proven or proven false, shouldn't continually have that information dredged up even though it's now in the public domain.
It's one of the concerns people have about newspapers going digital and in effect never out of print. Anyone can turn up everything about someones past with a search where as before they had to expend time and energy to trawl through archives of papers.
Leveson touched on that too with "the right to be forgotten".
tl;dr Courts made the correct decision imo.