After a gap of nearly twenty years, another judge of the County Court of Victoria has recognised the existence of a common law tort for the invasion of privacy in Waller (a pseudonym) v Barrett (a pseudonym) [2024] VCC 962 (‘Waller’). This represents a striking development in the common law of Australia and, notably, arose only weeks before the Second Reading of a Commonwealth Bill that proposes to introduce a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy into Australian legal landscape. Continue reading
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Almost four years since the Privacy Act review commenced, the Australian government has introduced a reform bill that fails to make most of the fundamental changes needed to modernise our privacy laws. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said in May that the government would introduce legislation to reform a privacy regime that’s “woefully outdated and unfit for the digital age”. Continue reading
In June this year we posted about an upcoming conference celebrating 20 years of the misuse of private information tort. This conference, generously funded by Matrix Chambers and the Society of Legal Scholars will take place on 19 and 20 September 2024, at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, London, E1 6LS. Continue reading
This post is written to promote an upcoming conference on Campbell v MGN Ltd on 19 and 20 September 2024 in London, funded by the Society of Legal Scholars and Matrix Chambers. Further details about the conference and how to register interest in participating are at the end of the post below. Continue reading
In recent days, both Ticketek Australia and Ticketmaster have experienced breaches which have exposed customer details to hackers. They join a growing list of high-profile data breaches that have put the privacy of millions at risk. Continue reading
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
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
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