On Tuesday 5 December 2023 there was a hearing before Fancourt J in the case of Various Claimants v NGN dealing with consequentials following the settlement of all the claims listed for hearing in January 2024. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: December 2023 (Page 2 of 2)
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
The former Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister Chris Huhne yesterday accepted a six-figure sum from the publisher of The Sun and News of the World in settlement of a phone-hacking and intrusion claim – and promptly demanded a new police investigation into the Murdoch company. Continue reading
On July 19, 2011, I sat three rows behind Rupert Murdoch at the select committee hearing where he had been summoned to give evidence after the shocking revelations about murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone being hacked by News of the World journalists. Continue reading
On 1 December 2023, Mr Justice Jay handed down judgement in favour of the defendant in the case of Dyson v MGN Limited [2023] EWHC 3092 (KB). The defendant published an article which characterised Sir James as “the vacuum cleaner tycoon who championed Vote Leave due to the economic opportunities…before moving his global head office to Singapore. In other words kids, talk the talk, then screw your country, and if anyone complains tell them to suck it up“. Continue reading
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public one year ago. It quickly became the fastest-growing app ever, in the hands of 100 million users by the end of the second month. Today, it’s available to more than a billion people via Microsoft’s Bing search, Skype and Snapchat – and OpenAI is predicted to collect more than US$1 billion in annual revenue. 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
In 2003, commenting on the proceedings of the “Open-Source Commission” established by the then government, I wrote in the glorious (and alas, now defunct) Linux&C magazine: “We are creating generations of functional illiterates subservient to the uncritical use of a single platform. People are already using systems with no awareness of their actions. Thus, when the spell-checker suggests that ‘democracy’ is not in the dictionary, they will, without question, simply cease to use the word -and forget about its existence. Continue reading
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