We are delighted to announce our Information Law Conference will be taking place on 24 April 2023.

11KBW’s market-leading specialists to provide insights and updates across the information law spectrum.

Click here to view the conference programme.

Conference details

Date: 24 April 2023

Registration from: 9.00am

Duration of Conference: 9.30am – 3.30pm

Drinks Reception from: 3.30pm – 5pm

Venue: Royal College of Surgeons, 38-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE

Cost: £199 + VAT per person.

To book a place please email RSVP@11kbw.com

The right to be forgotten – remember that? It isn’t often the subject of litigation, in the UK at least: uncertainty about outcomes is probably a significant reason why parties usually opt not to put their disputes before the courts. Last week’s judgment of the Grand Chamber of the CJEU in TU and RE v Google LLC (Case C‑460/20) won’t remove uncertainty about judicial approaches to such cases, but it does shed helpful light on some common elements of disputes under Article 17 (UK) GDPR. Read more »

Just about anyone who works in data protection will probably have asked, or have been asked: what do courts tend to award claimants who suffer data breaches? They will probably also be used to an answer along the lines that ‘it’s quite difficult to say; there isn’t very much case law’. Last week’s judgment of Knowles J in Driver v Crown Prosecution Service [2022] EWHC 2500 (KB) is a helpful contribution to this limited line of authority. Read more »

With apologies for the delay, Panopticon now brings you highlights from a CJEU judgment from August 2022, that contributes to case law – albeit of a post-Brexit variety – on two GDPR issues. These are (i) the necessity and proportionality of the legislative basis for relying on Article 6(1)(e), and (ii) whether data can be ‘special category data’ by reason of an inference. Here are some key points from the Grand Chamber’s judgment in OT v Vyriausioji tarnybinės etikos komisija (Case C‑184/20). Read more »

When I learned from Twitter that Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona had been writing an Opinion dedicated to the late-90s R&B boyband Damage, I was surprised but not shocked. This, I thought, is precisely the sort of esoteric approach to middling music-based law that resulted in so many voting to leave the EU. Imagine, then, my surprise to find upon reading the Opinion in Case C-300/12 UI v Österreichische Post AG (EU:C:2022:756) that there is almost no mention of Jade Jones’ long-term relationship with Spice Girl Emma Bunton, but instead there is a detailed Lloyd v Google style analysis of in what circumstances damages can be obtained for contravention of the GDPR. Read more »

Ofcom has today published its ‘roadmap to regulation’  if and when the Online Safety Bill becomes law, together with a ‘call for evidence’ for the first phase of online safety regulation. Both are premised on the current version of the Online Safety Bill, which is acknowledged to be subject to alteration as the legislation goes through the Parliamentary process.

Read more »