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Lotto and the right to privacy

  • 18-06-2009 7:37pm
    #1
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭


    We all saw the winner of 350,000EUR having their CCTV image captured on the national media.
    Now the guy doesn't seem averse to publicity and came across well in his interviews.

    Now supposing a board poster won a mega jackpot :pac:
    And wants to take their time before claiming, 90 days in the limit I think.

    The national press try to find out who won, the shop is identified so what happens next?

    Is there anything to stop the shop keepers getting your image off CCTV and giving to the papers? It'd be possible, the lotto will know when the ticket was bought.And if it's your local shopkeeper they probably know your name & address.

    Is the winner entitled to privacy and could they sue the shopkeeper for realising their image.?

    After all, publicity brings begging letters, relatives out the woodwork and since this is Ireland, begrudgers!!


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  • #2
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Yes - The right to privacy is and can be maintained. You have failed to mention that there are exceptional circumstances relating to that story.

    1. The ticket was kept by the shopkeeper;

    2. The shopkeeper marked and named the ticket;

    3. The shopkeeper is entitled to use CCTV in his store, and if notified can use the images as he wishes;

    4. The winner consented (you do identify that); and

    5. The location and shops are generally identified. Large prizes are collected from Lotto HQ on Middle Abbey St., Irish Life Centre, Dublin 1. Then consent to publicity is raised and paid for in terms of a top-up, if the winner wishes to expose his or her identity.

    Tom


  • #3
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Aye, the guy who won 350,000EUR was an exceptional case and I do acknowledge that.
    He did need to be identified as he forgot his ticket

    I'm thinking more of another scenario.
    We'll say an elderly person who is quiet and unassuming and certainly doesn't want their name in the media.
    And an elderly person will certainly have relatives appearing from nowhere! Got that will drawn up??

    Thank you for the explanation though
    Tom Young wrote: »

    3. The shopkeeper is entitled to use CCTV in his store, and if notified can use the images as he wishes;

    I seriously have a problem with this. CCTV is there for security purposes and should only be released to the gardai, not the national papers to identify a lotto winner


  • #4
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    mikemac wrote: »
    I seriously have a problem with this. CCTV is there for security purposes and should only be released to the gardai, not the national papers to identify a lotto winner

    See, in the instant case, I think there would have had to have been positive consent from the winner in relation to the CCTV. Then again, perhaps not, as the store owner has rights to use the images recorded but in more limited circumstances.

    On the elderly person, the lotto rules re. media and collection still apply. Consent is required.


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