The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is to intervene over concerns about the use of facial recognition technology on pupils in lunch queues in the nine schools that have introduced the system in North Ayrshire. The ICO said it has asked the schools to use a “less intrusive” approach where possible. Mishcon de Reya has further analysis here. Continue reading
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On Monday 11 October 2021, the Labour Party named Seumas Milne, Karie Murphy, Georgie Robertson, Laura Murray and Harry Hayball as the individuals responsible for leaking the report entitled “The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019.” The individuals continue to deny any involvement or complicity in the leak whatsoever. Continue reading
The 6-hour Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus outage on Monday 4 October 2021 has been described as the largest global outage ever recorded, with 10.6 million reports worldwide. The outage drew significant coverage from CNN, the Independent and the Telegraph. Continue reading
The Telegraph has suspended cartoonist Bob Moran following a tweet he made targeting an NHS doctor. Moran encouraged his followers to publicly abuse a palliative care doctor who posted about wearing masks on public transport to stop the spread of COVID-19. Doctor Rachel Clarke reported the tweet to the police and has threatened to sue Moran for defamation. Continue reading
Section 13(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 allows a Court to order that a non-party to cease communicating a defendant’s defamatory statement. Such an order can be made against a website operator, requiring them to remove the statement (section 13(a)), or any person who was not the author, editor or publisher of the defamatory who is distributing, selling or exhibiting material containing the statement (section 13(b)). Such orders are made after a claimant has obtained judgment. Continue reading
The Inforrm summer break ends today. This is the first Weekly Law and Media Round Up of the new legal term. The Michaelmas term begins on Friday 1 October 2021. Continue reading
It is now nearly two months since our last weekly round up. This regular feature will begin again at the start of the Michaelmas Legal Term at the end of next week. In the meantime, the purpose of this post is to round up some of the media and law developments in August and September. Continue reading
This is the seventeenth instalment in a regular series from Inforrm highlighting press and case reports of new media and information cases from around the world. It is intended to complement our United States: Monthly Round Up posts. Please let us know if there are other cases and jurisdictions which we should be covering. Continue reading
This post is the second part of two posts on the draft Online Safety Bill. The first post, found here, detailed the mechanics of the proposed bill in detail. This post will summarise some of the civil society responses since the publication of the draft bill, attempting an evaluation of how reasonable those responses are in light of the available information. Continue reading
In the case of Reilly v Iconic Newspaper [2021] IEHC 490, a consultant engineer with the same name as a man who was banned from driving by an Irish court faces having to pay a costs bill running into six figures after failing in a bid to sue a newspaper over its report of the case. Continue reading
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