Cross-Border Data Protection in the Internet Age

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 […]

Right to be forgotten – Khashaba revisited

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 […]

The Right to be Forgotten and the County Court

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 […]

Right to be forgotten claim rejected by the administrative court

So here’s the question: you’re an individual who wants to have certain links containing information about you deindexed by Google; Google has refused to accede to your request and, upon complaint to the ICO, the Commissioner has decided that your complaint is unfounded and so he refuses to take enforcement action against Google under s. 40 DPA […]