So there we have it. Data protection, once the preserve of tragic anoraks with too much time on their hands, has now firmly taken up its place as a glittering star within the European legal firmament. For who now, in the wake of the Schrems judgment, can doubt the global political and economic significance of […]
Now the immediate dust has settled on last weeks’ judgments of the CJEU in Bara and in Weltimmo it is perhaps briefly revisiting both to note some of the real issues and questions which arise. Answers are harder to come by, but the theme is of a rigid approach by the Court to Directive 95/46/EC […]
One of the great difficulties facing data protection lawyers is how Directive 95/46/EC copes with the internet age. How do you work out where processing has happened? How do you work out who is responsible? Where can you sue them or otherwise take action against them? What law applies (important given that the Directive has […]
In July of this year, I blogged about a judicial review case involving a challenge to the ICO’s decision that Google had not breached the DPA when it refused a ‘right to be forgotten’ application made by a Mr Khashaba. My post confirmed that the court had refused permission for Mr Khashaba to proceed with […]
By way of a (limited) update, the current expected listing for the Supreme Court hearing in Google Inc v Vidal-Hall is May-July 2016. Plenty of time to get your damages claims resolved between now and then… CK
The right to be forgotten is beginning to generate some litigation, albeit not yet with any blaze of glory. Following on from the attempt to judicially review the ICO for refusing to try and enforce an individual’s complaint that his data rights were being breached (see here), earlier this week a claimant failed to get […]
