“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy in today’s era of big data and artificial intelligence. Continue reading
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In December 2025, the Home Office opened a consultation on potential avenues for a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition, and similar technologies. Continue reading
On 18 March 2026, the Press Justice Project will host Off the Record in London — a half-day conference examining the evolving relationship between police and the press at a time of significant legal and institutional change. Continue reading
Imagine a stranger starts chatting with you on a train platform or in a shop. The exchange feels ordinary. Later, it appears online, edited as “dating advice” and framed to invite sexualised commentary. Continue reading
Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly used to deceive people. Continue reading
Is English privacy law now so claimant-friendly that the press cannot adequately report on serious wrongdoing, such as sexual misconduct, when it is in the public interest? This difficult issue is the focus of a new article I have written, published open-access in the Journal of Media Law. Continue reading
On 17 August 2023 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) put the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on broad notice about the devastating failure of data protection that is now generally known as the Afghan data breach (although sadly there have been many others). Continue reading
Thomas Partey, formerly of Arsenal, now (controversially) a Villarreal player, is the latest high-profile football star to face serious criminal allegations, drawing his club into questions about its values and reputation. Continue reading
Tragedy is often news. And grieving family members can help the media generate it. Ordinary people can therefore find themselves confronted by intense media interest at the worst possible time – whilst trying to come to terms with the sudden loss of a loved one. Continue reading
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