But with hugely complex, amorphous problems we need time for our moral compasses to reset before we rush in with new privacy laws, laws which risk creating far greater problems - impacting free speech or curtailing innovation through regulation - than they solve. Email this to a friend When naked pictures of a prince emerged online yesterday in my mind there's only one person who's done anything wrong and that's the person who breached the Prince's trust by flogging the photos. I'm a staunch advocate for our privacy rights, but I'm also a technologist and a realist. I'm not about to condemn a website for publishing private pictures because the public interest here is that such pictures of one of the world's most high profile people exist in the first place. The public interest is a lesson: this can happen to anyone. We all have access to tiny cameras and online publishing tools. We are all at risk of being severely embarrassed by someone in our close circle and we're all equally in a position of power over those in our social circle. But, unlike the royal family, as individuals we're in a pretty weak position when it comes to getting content removed from websites or kicking up a storm condemning a news outlet for breaching our privacy. Whilst technology gives us this power it's up to society, not the website operators and certainly not (yet, at least) governments, to come up with a solution. The breach here is not