A campaign group, Facebook You Owe Us, is to launch a representative action against Facebook for the illegal use of one million users’ data in the England and Wales following Cambridge Analytica scandal. Continue reading
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Month: October 2020 (Page 1 of 4)
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
At a High Court hearing today Mr Justice Warby has ruled that the trial of the claim by the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, against Associated Newspapers should be adjourned from January 2021 until Autumn 2021. The primary basis for the adjournment was a “confidential ground”. Continue reading
The Prime Minister’s chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, has long been a sworn enemy of the BBC. In 2004, when he was director of the New Frontiers Foundation, he called for “the end of the BBC in its current form” and argued that the “privileged closed world of the BBC needs to be turned upside down and its very existence should be the subject of a very intense and well-funded campaign’”. Continue reading
The Trump administration’s move to ban the popular video app TikTok has stoked fears about the Chinese government collecting personal information of people who use the app. These fears underscore growing concerns Americans have about digital privacy generally. Continue reading
The reserved judgment in the case of Johnny Depp v News Group Newspapers will be handed down by Mr Justice Nicol on 2 November 2020. The trial took place over 16 days between 7 and 28 July 2020. Continue reading
IPSO’s Annual Report for 2019 [pdf] reveals that in that year it had 9,766 complaints and inquiries which it received and assessed. Most of these were summarily dismissed for a variety of reasons. IPSO investigated 621 complaints and upheld only 55 (that is, 9%). There was a report in the Press Gazette. Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
Online political advertising has seen an unprecedented amount of attention in the run up to recent elections as online campaigning, often via social media, becomes an increasingly significant part of political parties’ strategies. Concerns over how precisely ads are targeted at specific categories of voters are now common around the world, and various governments have been looking at how to bring regulation of online political advertising in line with regulation in the offline world. Here, University of Amsterdam researchers Carolina Menezes-Cwajg, Paddy Leerssen and Jef Ausloos provide insight into the findings of a new report which maps the efforts to improve transparency in targeted political advertising in a range of countries.
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On 6 October 2020, Drag Race UK participant Crystal publicly announced her intention to pursue a defamation action against actor and aspiring politician Laurence Fox after calling her a ‘paedophile’ on Twitter. Continue reading
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