The British Prime Minister has waded into the controversy surrounding the naming of a premier league footballer at the centre of growing controversy over privacy laws.
A British MP used parliamentary privilege to identify Manchester United player Ryan Giggs as the sportsman who had secured a court order preventing him being named in connection with an alleged affair with a reality television star.
Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming said the name had been widely circulated on social networking site Twitter.
"With about 75,000 people having named Ryan Giggs it is obviously impracticable to imprison them all," he said.
Prime Minister David Cameron told the BBC the so-called super injunction preventing mainstream UK media from revealing the footballer's identity as unfair and unsustainable.
The High Court has again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted, the BBC reports.
The player obtained the order against former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas and the Sun newspaper.
The footballer's lawyers have also obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to reveal details of users who had revealed his identity after thousands named him.
Parliamentary privilege protects British MPs and peers from prosecution for statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords.
