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Tortious interference doesn't occur, in the slightest, whether the BBC carries out their threat or not. The hint is in the word "tortious." Explain the tort. Th

Tortious interference doesn't occur, in the slightest, whether the BBC carries out their threat or not. The hint is in the word "tortious." Explain the tort. Think about it: complaining to a manager at a fast food restaurant would result in liability for the customer in this world where tortious interference bizarrely applies.

kazinator 9y ago
This is like complaining to a manager at a fast food restaurant because of some personal problem with the fast food employee, outside of the context of being served by that employee. The perpetrator is "getting even" with that person by trying to stir up problems for them at work. Maybe they met at a party last weekend, and the one insulted the other's girlfriend or whatever; nothing to do with hamburgers. If you have a problem with service and complain to a manager, then you're clearly not a "third party"; the contract between the employee and fast food restaurant has everything to do with serving you. Note that the BBC are not saying that they will contact your employer only if it can be determined that you used the employer's time and equipment to post the comments. Even if you post those comments using your own residential internet connection on your own time, they threaten to contact your employer.
- JdeBP 9y ago
  It's not like fast food restaurants at all. This is a privacy policy. And it is like (say) the privacy policy that covers people with accounts at Japan Today, which says: > We reserve the right to use or share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Japan Today Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law. The difference is that unlike Japan Today, and other privacy policies mentioned elsewhere on this page, the BBC is trying to tell you whom the information will be disclosed to, pursuant to the guidelines from the U.K. Information Commissioner on privacy policies, but somewhat ineptly. Japan Today tells you that it may "share information", but nothing whatsoever about whom that is likely to be with. The BBC is trying to tell you whom it is likely to be sharing information with. And it should come as no surprise that if you are posting from a work computer, one of the people it is going to be sharing the information with is the company that your IP address backtracks to.

kazinator 9y ago

This is like complaining to a manager at a fast food restaurant because of some personal problem with the fast food employee, outside of the context of being served by that employee. The perpetrator is "getting even" with that person by trying to stir up problems for them at work. Maybe they met at a party last weekend, and the one insulted the other's girlfriend or whatever; nothing to do with hamburgers. If you have a problem with service and complain to a manager, then you're clearly not a "third party"; the contract between the employee and fast food restaurant has everything to do with serving you. Note that the BBC are not saying that they will contact your employer only if it can be determined that you used the employer's time and equipment to post the comments. Even if you post those comments using your own residential internet connection on your own time, they threaten to contact your employer.

JdeBP 9y ago
It's not like fast food restaurants at all. This is a privacy policy. And it is like (say) the privacy policy that covers people with accounts at Japan Today, which says: > We reserve the right to use or share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Japan Today Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law. The difference is that unlike Japan Today, and other privacy policies mentioned elsewhere on this page, the BBC is trying to tell you whom the information will be disclosed to, pursuant to the guidelines from the U.K. Information Commissioner on privacy policies, but somewhat ineptly. Japan Today tells you that it may "share information", but nothing whatsoever about whom that is likely to be with. The BBC is trying to tell you whom it is likely to be sharing information with. And it should come as no surprise that if you are posting from a work computer, one of the people it is going to be sharing the information with is the company that your IP address backtracks to.