Mosley v Google: RIP

So Max Mosley has done a deal with Google in respect of his claim that Google had breached his rights under the DPA 1998 by refusing to block certain images and videos accessible via the Google search engine (see this FT article which suggests that the settlement also applies to claims brought by Mr Mosley […]

Google Spain, freedom of expression and security: the Dutch fight back

The Dutch fighting back against the Spanish, battling to cast off the control exerted by Spanish decisions over Dutch ideologies and value judgments. I refer of course to the Eighty Years’ War (1568-1648), which in my view is a sadly neglected topic on Panopticon. The reference could also be applied, without too much of a […]

Unforgettable that’s what you are – Google Spain revisited

The debates over whether the CJEU’s judgment in Google Spain represents an unjustified attack on free speech rights have raged for months now. Interestingly, it seems that some judges at the local level at least are proving somewhat resistant to this highly privacy-centred judgment. Thus, according to online reports, in recent weeks a Dutch preliminary […]

Google Spain – new High Court judgment

Readers of this blog will already be familiar with the ways in which data protection legislation is assuming increasing importance in both the media and technology worlds. Certainly if there were any doubt as to the relevance of this legislation to the way in which both the media and technology companies operate, that doubt was […]

In the wake of Google Spain: freedom of expression down (but not out)

The CJEU’s judgment in Google Spain was wrong and has created an awful mess. That was the near-unanimous verdict of a panel of experts – including 11KBW’s Anya Proops – at a debate hosted by ITN and the Media Society on Monday 14 July and entitled ‘Rewriting History: Is the new era in Data Protection […]