The election nears. The Prime Minister publicly stakes his re-election prospects on his government’s ability to make its the flagship “Rwanda” policy operational (or else threatens to leave that the Strasbourg court if it blocks it). Barely a day goes by when the “small boats crisis” and the litigation to which the expensive Rwanda scheme has given rise is not covered by the press and broadcast media. Continue reading
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The Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam announces the 11th edition of the Annual IViR Summer Course on Privacy Law and Policy. The course will extend over a five-day period from July 1 to 5, 2024, at de Burcht, a historic building in the center of Amsterdam. Continue reading
From court cases to conspiracy theories, the royal family’s right to privacy is, somewhat ironically, nearly always in the spotlight. Continue reading
Inforrm covered a wide range of data protection and privacy cases in 2022. Following my posts in 
A pivotal court judgment has found evidence that “habitual” phone hacking went on at Mirror Group newspapers for years. The high court judgement from Mr Justice Fancourt left no doubt: “There is compelling evidence that the editors of each newspaper knew very well that [phone hacking] was being used extensively and habitually and that they were happy to take the benefits of it”. Continue reading
We have reached a key juncture in the debate about online privacy, following Meta’s recent decision to offer some users paid-for ad-free access to Facebook and Instagram. The time has come to decide how much we value keeping our data, tastes and whereabouts to ourselves. Continue reading
In a comprehensive judgment handed down today in the case of Various Claimants v Associated Newspapers Limited [2023] EWHC 2789 (KB), Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed the application by the Defendant, the publisher of the Daily Mail, for summary judgment against the seven claimants on limitation grounds. The Judge upheld the defendant’s objections to the Claimants’ reliance on certain documents from the Leveson Inquiry and orders withholding the names of journalists. Continue reading
In the case of JRV & ARC v BRG [2023] EWHC 2238 (KB) Mr Justice Ritchie granted an interim privacy injunction preventing the publication of information about an extra-marital affair. Continue reading
If you’ve ever used a dating app, you’ve probably experienced the disappointment of meeting someone who doesn’t look quite like their photos. You may have even been a victim of catfishing, where someone creates a fake identity to deceive or scam others online. But what if someone uses your photos to catfish someone else? Continue reading
In the wake of the digital revolution, questions surrounding the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten have come to the fore. With the digitalisation of press archives, what once required extensive archival research can now be discovered – even sometimes accidentally – through a simple online search. This is what led the Belgian Courts to order that Mr Hurbain anonymise an article in the online archive of the Le Soir newspaper. Before the European Court of Human Rights (the Court, ECtHR) Mr Hurbain argued that this order had violated his right to freedom of expression. Continue reading
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