In a decision handed down on 15 June 2018 (TLU and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2217) the Court of Appeal dismissed the Home Office’s appeal against findings of liability for misuse of private information and for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”). Read the rest of this entry »
Case Law: TLU v Home Office, Misuse of Private Information and Data Protection Appeals dismissed, Durant further explained – Lorna Skinner
20 06 2018Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: Home Office, Lorna Skinner
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Privacy
GDPR and journalism: the new regime – Greg Callus
5 06 2018
David Cameron was often derided as an “essay crisis” Prime Minister – the Oxford PPE undergraduate model of relying on good general knowledge and trusting your ability to pick up the details only as peril looms large. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Greg Callus, Press Gazette
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Journalism
Data Protection: The Right to a Second Chance
2 06 2018
The new right to be forgotten (now known as “the right to erasure”) was enshrined in law last week, but it will pass a lot of people by. Many will not know – or care – about their online profile, but for others the right is vital to their future. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Right to be Forgotten, Right to Erasure
Categories : Data Protection, EU
Right to erasure (right to be forgotten) under the GDPR: the danger of “rewriting history” or the individual’s chance to leave the past behind – Ketevan Kukava
31 05 2018
In the internet age, when vast amount of information can be stored indefinitely and can be easily retrieved by means of a mouse click, controlling one’s personal data seems a particularly difficult task to do. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google Spain, Ketevan Kukava, Right to be Forgotten
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Internet
GDPR: ground zero for a more trusted, secure internet – Bill Buchanan
26 05 2018
Most of us have been bombarded recently by a barrage of emails from companies begging us to “stay in touch” or “opt in” or informing us of a “policy update”. On May 25, an historic date for the internet, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. For some, it is the start of a more citizen-focused world, for others it will see the collapse of their digital marketing strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bill Buchanan, GDPR, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Internet
What Facebook isn’t telling us about its fight against online abuse – Laura Bliss
24 05 2018
Facebook has for the first time made available data on the scale of abusive comments posted to its site. This may have been done under the growing pressure by organisations for social media companies to be more transparent about online abuse, or to gain credibility after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Either way, the figures do not make for pleasurable reading. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Facebook, Laura Bliss, The Conversation
Categories : Data Protection, Social Media
Case Report, Sir Cliff Richard v BBC, Day 12, “Intrusive questioning added insult to injury” – Media Lawyer
9 05 2018
Lawyers representing Sir Cliff Richard have criticised the BBC over the way the singer was questioned about his “religious and political beliefs” during a High Court trial. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Broadcasting, Data Protection, Privacy
