Mottarone Cableway, Privacy Guarantor: “No pain spectacle”

With reference to the dissemination of videos that tell the last moments of the tragedy of the Mottarone cable car, the Guarantor for the protection of personal data invites the media and users of social networks to “refrain from further dissemination of images and from forms of spectacularization of the ‘event, which can only exacerbate the pain of the victims’ families and those related to them “. “The videos, whose content had not yet been brought to the attention of the family themselves, add little, as far as public opinion is concerned, to the reconstruction of the dynamics of the terrible accident, already widely covered by the media”, underlines the Privacy Guarantor. The Guarantor therefore calls on the media themselves to “respect the principle of essentiality of information, established by the ethical rules on journalistic activities, and to safeguard the dignity of people”. The Authority “launches a particular appeal to those who in these hours are posting and sharing videos on social networks so that pain does not become a tool for an extra like”.