Ahklaq Choudhury posted this week about the Google Spain judgment. For more 11KBW commentary on the topic, see the article in The Lawyer by Anya Proops: “Privacy but at what price?“. Anya’s article concludes: “Of course, it may well be that these issues will be resolved in the context of the new Data Protection Regulation […]
In the landmark judgment in Google Spain SL and Google Inc., v Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos, Gonzales (13th May 2014), the CJEU found that Google is a data controller and is engaged in processing personal data within the meaning of Directive 95/46 whenever an internet search about an individual results in the presentation […]
I posted earlier on Tugendhat J’s judgment this morning in Vidal-Hall and Others v Google Inc [2014] EWHC 13 (QB). The judgment is now available here – thanks as ever to Bailii. This is what the case is about: a group of claimants say that, by tracking and collating information relating to their internet usage […]
Panopticon has from time to reported on Google’s jurisdictional argument when faced with privacy/data protection actions in European countries: it tends to argue that such claims should be dismissed and must be brought in California instead. This argument is not always successful. The same jurisdictional argument was advanced before Mr Justice Tugendhat in response to […]
In a move apparently carefully designed to hurt this blog’s rankings in the leading search engine algorithm, Panopticon must – yet again – note Google’s noble efforts to single-handedly ensure the development of data protection and privacy law. Robin Hopkins has noted the AG’s Opinion on Google and the right to be forgotten case. I […]
Chris Knight has blogged recently about enforcement action against Google by European Data Protection authorities (but not yet the UK’s ICO). I blogged last month about a German case (BGH, VI ZR 269/12 of 14th May 2013) concerning Google’s ‘autocomplete’ function, and earlier this year about the Google Spain case (Case C‑131/12). The latter arises […]
