Large-scale civil litigation is one of the developing contours of data protection law. Last week’s judgment in Lloyd v Google – a novel representative action based on allegedly unlawful processing activities – is one illustration. When it comes to group litigation on the back of a data breach, our best illustration thus far is the […]
Everyone is weighing in on the right to be forgotten these days and now, not to miss a turn on the rights bandwagon when its Luxembourg rival has got in ahead of it, the European Court of Human Rights has had a go too in ML & WW v Germany (App. No. 60798/10 and 65599/10) […]
Three updates for data protection watchers about cases with a wide-ranging potential impact in the Luxembourg courts.
The judgment of Mitting J in the case of TLT is now routinely invoked in the context of discussions over how you go about quantifying the value of a distress damages claim where there has been a data breach. In TLT, the Home Office had accidentally disclosed online a spreadsheet containing data relating to asylum […]
It has taken some time for the principles recognised – somewhat ambiguously – in Google Spain to be tested in the English courts. Although the so-called right to be forgotten has rarely left the public memory (at least of that wretched and spindly section of the public which is interested in data protection), taking on […]
The judgment of Warby J in NT1 & NT2 v Google LLC [2018] EWHC 799 (QB) – the first (and second) right to be forgotten trials in England and Wales – has now been handed down. You can read it here and there is a summary here. Who wins? It’s a 1-1 draw, with Google […]
