It is a common trope of media lawyers that defamation claims have been on the wane since the Defamation Act 2013, and that data protection law might be the way to fill the gap. (We at Panopticon scorn such arriviste tendencies.) And in Warby J, there is a willing champion of alignment of legal principles […]
There are not many areas of law entirely unaffected by the coronavirus (it comes to something when even wills and trusts starts to look important) but data protection has a place at the vanguard. As the situation continues to develop, there are more and more updates. Here are a collected few.
Having blogged earlier today about a very happy outcome in Morrisons, I now want to share with you some important news concerning another large-scale privacy action, namely Atkinson v Equifax Ltd.
By which we mean: some that we did miss blogging about. With apologies and better late than nevers, here’s a round-up of three recent(ish) cases worthy of note. In R (Open Rights Group) v SSHD digital campaigners Open Rights Group and The3million (campaigning on behalf of so many EU Citizens living in the UK) challenged […]
Article 15(1) of the E-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) has long been a useful weapon in the armoury of social media platforms and search engines by prohibiting a “general monitoring obligation”. This, they argue, means that they can only be required to remove specific unlawful content that is identified by the complainant or court, but no more. […]
So, we approach the GDPR’s first birthday. You know what’s nice for birthdays? Fines. Really big ones. According to an article in today’s Times (paywall), significant GDPR monetary penalties from the ICO are imminent, around the 1-year mark for our new data protection regime. The Irish DPC is apparently limbering up likewise. And it also announced […]
