Bonjour, et maintenant pour un post de Panopticon dans le style de Miles Kington et ‘Franglais’. Recallez-vous le judgment de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne dans Google Spain (ici)? Tres bien. Maintenant, il y a une announcement from CNIL (le ICO de France), informing Google that le ‘right to be forgotten’ applies aux search […]

Just two short but important pieces of news. First, I can now confirm that Google has applied for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court in respect of the Court of Appeal’s landmark judgment in Vidal-Hall v Google. The SC’s judgment on the application is awaited. Second, it would appear that the case of CG […]

I have today been speaking at the IAPP conference at A&O alongside David Smith (UK Deputy Information Commissioner), Bruno Gencarelli (European Commission, Head of Data Protection Unit) and Wojciech Wiewiórowski (Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor). The conference yielded a number of really interesting insights, a number of which I highlight below. First and perhaps most […]

Readers of this blog will doubtless be well aware of the recent landmark judgment of the Court of Appeal in Vidal-Hall & Ors v Google, where it was held that compensation is available for mere distress caused by  breach of data protection legislation. Interestingly, it is being reported today that the US Supreme Court will […]

The extent to which privacy and data protection rights can effectively resonate within the online environment is an acutely important issue for all information law practitioners. Moreover, it is an issue which seems to be gaining ever increasing traction in the litigation context, as is illustrated not least by the following developments. As most readers […]