Following on from yesterday’s French enforcement announcement, the ICO announced on 21 June 2013 that the collection of personal data by Google’s Street View cars – including email addresses, URLs and passwords relating to thousands of individuals – was required to be deleted within 35 days. This payload data was, according to Google, accidentally collected […]
On 20 June 2013 the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (the CNIL) – the French data protection agency – issued a statement in relation to its investigation into Google’s privacy policy. It formed part of co-ordinated action by data protection agencies in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The […]
Unsurprisingly, the frontiers of privacy and data protection law are often explored and extended by reference to what Google does. Panopticon has, for example, covered disputes over Google Street View (on which a US lawsuit was settled in recent months), Google’s status as a ‘publisher’ of blogs containing allegedly defamatory material (see Tamiz v Google […]
Data protection law was designed to be a fundamental and concrete dimension of the individual’s right to privacy, the primary safeguard against misuse of personal information. Given those ambitions, it is surprisingly rarely litigated in the UK. It also attracts criticism as imposing burdensome bureaucracy but delivering little in the way of tangible protection in […]
Tugendhat J ended in his Judgment on 19 December 2011 in AB v Barristers Benevolent Association Ltd [2011] EWHC 3413 (QB) by saying: “This judgment may alert practitioners to the possibility that information stored on a cache by Google may take several days to have removed”. The BBA provides support to barristers in many different […]
I reported in a recent post that the Information Commissioner had instructed Google to sign an undertaking aimed at any repeat of the breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 committed during Google’s information-gathering for its Street View feature. That undetaking has now been signed, and a copy can be viewed here. It requires Google engineers to maintain a […]
