Ryan Giggs Sex Scandal: An example of breaking the privacy law

Last year there was news that Manchester United star Ryan Giggs had an affair with former Big Brother housemate Imogen Thomas. Giggs took out a super injunction in court which means that it would be against the law to mention him as the man who had the affair. However Ryan Giggs was being mentioned all over Twitter as the man who had the affair and there was nothing the court could do and eventually the name had been broadcast and everyone across the country knew. This was breaking the privacy law because personal facts about an individual had been published by broadcasters. No one had been punished for the breaking of the privacy law in the end because the name had been revealed by over 75,000 people on Twitter and it would be impossible to punish them all so it was left unpunished, however Ryan Giggs did demand that his lawyers sue the people on Twitter who revealed his name. Also, you could argue that the story is in the public interest because Ryan Giggs is a celebrity and has been for years, and as a result is sacrificing his privacy; this would mean that the privacy law is not broken by this. Also it could be breaking the human rights act and the right to personal privacy because his private life has been exposed, but once again because he is a celebrity, it is expected that he may not have much privacy.