The Ministry of Justice has published the privacy injunction statistics for 2018. These record a total of 5 new interim privacy injunction applications. Of these 3 were granted, one was refused and one was withdrawn. The statistics are to be found in Section 7 of the Civil Justice Quarterly for October to December 2018 [pdf], published earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »
News: Privacy Injunction Statistics for 2018, five applications recorded, substantial reduction from 2017
26 03 2019Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Ministry of Justice, Privacy Injunctions, Statistics
Categories : Injunction, Privacy
Forcing online platforms to remove footage of violent attacks: could privacy help? – Jelena Gligorijevic
21 03 2019
The attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week saw the perpetrator publish footage of his violent attack, as it was happening, online. That footage was republished on various platforms as well as by some news media outlets. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Jelena Gligorijević, Platforms
Categories : Privacy, Social Media
Privacy pivot: Facebook wants to be more like WhatsApp. But details are scarce – Sacha Molitorisz
14 03 2019
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivered a 3,000+ word post last week, spelling out a new vision for the social network. It prompts just one small question: Facebook, who are you? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: The Conversation
Categories : Privacy, Social Media
University of Amsterdam: 2019 IViR Summer Course on Privacy Law and Policy
1 03 2019
Online activities quite often involve transfers of personal data between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US), for example when using online search, social networks and many mobile apps. Both regions are governed by different rules on the protection of informational privacy and personal data. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Legal, Privacy
Case Law: Fearn and the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery, Emanations of the Tate, a “self induced incentive to gaze” is not nuisance – Athalie Matthews
28 02 2019
In the recent case of Fearn v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery ([2019] EWHC 246 (Ch)) the High Court analysed privacy rights from a novel perspective in both literal and legal terms. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Athalie Matthews, Nuisance, Tate Gallery
Categories : Caselaw, Human Rights, Privacy
Brexit whispers: when eavesdropping on private conversations by a journalist is ethically justified – Dave Porter
17 02 2019
When you are in a restaurant or a hotel bar the last thing you expect is for the private conversation you are having to be reported all over the media the next day. But that may well depend upon who you are and what you say. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Dave Porter, The Conversation
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation, Privacy
Case Law: R (P, G and W) and Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department, A criminal record or a clean slate? – Matthew Flinn
8 02 2019
In the case of R (P, G and W) and Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Anor [2019] UKSC 3 the Supreme Court upheld challenges to the legal regimes for disclosing criminal records in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, finding them to be incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Matthew Flinn, Spent Convictions, Supreme Court, UK Human Rights Blog
Categories : Legal, Privacy
