There have been rumours, but Panopticon can confirm that the appeal to the Supreme Court in Google v Vidal-Hall on the disapplication of section 13(2) of the Data Protection Act 1998 has been withdrawn following an agreement being reached between the parties. This is obviously a disappointment to those wanting to see what the Supremes […]
THIS POST SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH MY MORE RECENT POST ON THIS SUBJECT – SEE HERE As we all reel in shock at today’s news, thoughts will inevitably turn to how our impending divorce from Europe will impact on the sphere of data protection. Our own data protection laws have of course been […]
The question of the extent to which privacy rights have a practical purchase in the online world is very much in the news this week (see below my post on this topic earlier today). An important aspect of this issue is the extent to which individuals are positively identifiable as and when they operate within […]
The question of how data protection rights cash out within the online environment is without doubt one of the more difficult questions which data privacy practitioners have to tackle. One major area of contention is the extent to which data protection legislation applies to ostensibly anonymous, impersonal online data. This is an issue which our own Court of […]
If you made a successful ‘right to be forgotten’ request to Google in the UK, the outcome would be that the URL you complained of would no longer appear in search results through the google.co.uk search engine. However, by simply using the .com version of the browser instead, that outcome would be neatly sidestepped: the […]
It is panto season, and everyone loves a good villain. This Christmas’ Wicked Stepmother is the Mirror Group who, when asking ‘Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the most liable of them all?’ has received the answer from the Court of Appeal that they are and must pay the consequences. The Court of Appeal’s […]
