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The UK government has promised that its new app, expected to launch in late 2022, will be a one-stop shop, simplifying access to a wide range of government services. But issues of surveillance and access are just some of the questions yet to be addressed. Continue reading
This is the eighteenteenth 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
Terabytes of sensitive financial data have been stolen by cyber hackers and supplied, on a massive scale, to large numbers of journalists who appear to believe that there is a public interest in trawling through private information. Continue reading
The latest Ministry of Justice privacy injunction statistics show that the low rate of applications has continued in 2021. In the first six months of the year there were 3 privacy injunction applications (compared to 10 in 2020). Continue reading
The Royal Family in modern times live very public lives. Core members seem to have been bred in captivity, like exotic fish in an open aquarium, some of whose waters are murkier than others, but almost all of which will sooner or later be publicly visible. Continue reading
In the case of ES v Shillington (2021 ABQB 739) by Madam Justice Avril Inglis of Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench in awarded a total of total $460,000 of damages for assault, sexual assault, battery, and intentional infliction of mental distress, including $155,000 for damages suffered as a result of the defendant sharing sexual images of the plaintiff on the internet without her consent. Continue reading
On 30 August 2021 it was announced that the privacy claim brought by Ben and Deborah Stokes against the Sun had been settled, with the newspaper agreeing to apologise and pay substantial damages. This was a complete victory for the claimants nearly two years after an intrusive and deeply upsetting front page article about the claimants. Continue reading
The privacy claim against the Sun by cricketer Ben Stokes and his mother, Deborah Stokes, has been settled. The Sun has agreed to pay damages and costs. Continue reading
On 30 July 2021, Saini J handed down judgment on the Defendant’s strike-out application in Warren v DSG Retail Limited [2021] EWHC 2168 (QB). His decision addresses the viability (or, more properly, the lack thereof) of breach of confidence (BoC) and misuse of private information (MPI) claims against data controllers who have suffered cyber attacks and, in so doing, provides much needed clarity on the recoverability of ATE adverse costs insurance premiums in such claims. Continue reading
Photographic technology has raised questions about the privacy of those captured since its emergence in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The case of Hájovský v. Slovakia ([2021] ECHR 591) the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) returned to the tricky, topical issue of the degree of protection Article 8 affords the filmed or photographed individual. Continue reading
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