Ghosts in the Machine: The Fight for Privacy After Death
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Ghosts in the Machine: The Fight for Privacy After Death
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In the early hours of 6 June 2020, Nicole Smallman and her sister Bibaa Henry had just finished celebrating Bibaa's birthday with friends in a park in London. Alone and in the dark, they were both fatally and repeatedly stabbed 36 times.
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But the police didn’t just fail them in life—they failed them in death too. PC Deniz Jaffer and PC Jamie Lewis, both of the Metropolitan Police, took selfies with the dead bodies of the victims, posting them on a WhatsApp group. And no privacy laws prevented them from doing so.