A June 2018 decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States established an interesting principle on digital privacy in a case related to a criminal proceeding. Read the rest of this entry »
The legal implications of digital privacy – Florencio Travieso
16 01 2019Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Florencio Travieso, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Legal, Privacy
Hacked Off: Gatwick Drones and Cliff’s Law: privacy invasion without public interest justification
15 01 2019
The debate on whether a new law should be introduced, dubbed ‘Cliff’s Law’, has recently resurfaced. This is in part due to the ‘Gatwick Drones’coverage over the Christmas period, when a couple was, in effect, wrongly accused on the front page of two national newspapers of being involved in criminal activity after they were arrested on suspicion of being responsible for the Gatwick airport drone disruption. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Media Regulation, Privacy
Law and Media Round Up – 14 January 2019
14 01 2019
The Hilary Term 2019 began last Friday, 11 January 2019. We welcomed the New Year with a follow up to our most popular post of 2018, this time “Top 10 Defamation Cases of 2018”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Legal, Media
Case Law: Ameyaw v PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Employment Tribunal judgment anonymity application fails – Media Lawyer
12 01 2019
In the case of Ameyaw v PriceWaterhouseCoopers ([2019] UKEAT 0244_18_0401) a former senior manager failed in a bid to win anonymity in a published judgment from an Employment Tribunal, and in an application for two decisions to be removed from public records available on the internet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anonymity, EAT
Categories : Legal, Open Justice
The Right To Be Forgotten back in the CJEU: Advocate General Opinions on sensitive personal data and the geographical scope of de-referencing – Ian Helme
11 01 2019
“Reconciling the right to privacy and the protection of personal data with the right to information and freedom of expression in the age of the Internet is one of the main challenges of our time.” With these words, Advocate General Szpunar opened the first of two important opinions involving Google and the right to be forgotten he delivered yesterday, 10 January 2019. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google, Ian Helme, Right to be Forgotten
Categories : Data Protection, EU
Article 8 and the “outside world”: privacy, reputation and employment – Hugh Tomlinson QC
10 01 2019
The Article 8 right to respect for private life has many facets and has often seemed in danger of uncontrolled expansion. The Court of Human Rights has often noted that private life is “not susceptible to exhaustive definition”, embracing “multiple aspects of the person’s physical and social identity”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Article 8, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Right to Reputation
Categories : Human Rights, Privacy
Why talking about ‘disinformation’ misses the point when considering radical right ‘alternative’ media – Julia Rone
9 01 2019
In light of the upcoming European Parliament elections, the European Commission published its Action Plan against Disinformation last month, aimed at protecting EU’s “democratic systems and public debates”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Julia Rone, LSE Media Policy Project Blog
Categories : Journalism, Media
