Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has released a report with 30 proposals for updating Australia’s privacy regime. The proposals are practical, necessary and overdue. However, they are just proposals, which have been made several times in the past before disappearing into the “too hard basket” of the Australian, state and territory governments. Continue reading
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The recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of TU, RE v Google LLC ([2022] EUECJ C-460/20) answered two questions referred to it by the German court regarding the delisting of results generated by search engines on the basis that they contain inaccurate information. Continue reading
I completed an English LLB law degree in 2016, and an LLM in 2017. Back then, there were few options to study data protection law modules. Little did we know that data protection would become a very important area of law (and one I wish I had learned about a lot sooner!). Continue reading
Inforrm covered a wide range of data protection and privacy cases in 2022. Following my posts in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 here is my selection of notable privacy and data protection cases across 2022. Continue reading
A number of Bills proposed by the recent Conservative governments have sparked controversy among commentators: among them, the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, the Retained EU Law Bill, and the ‘British’ Bill of Rights Bill. Taking its place in the rogues’ gallery is the Online Safety Bill (OSB)[pdf]. Continue reading
In McCann and Healy v. Portugal ([2022] ECHR 725)(in French only), the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that the applicants’ Article 8 rights had not been violated by the publication of a book, a documentary programme, and a newspaper interview alleging that the applicants’ daughter had died inside their holiday flat and that the applicants had hidden her dead body and fabricated her abduction. Continue reading
Going viral was once a dream for creative types hoping to make it big on YouTube. But in the age of livestreaming and public shaming, it’s now the stuff of nightmares. TikTok trends, pranks and even “acts of kindness” have led to people finding accidental viral fame without their consent, or even their knowledge. Continue reading
With local, and occasionally, national, politics currently convulsed by the ‘Northern Ireland Protocol’, one could be forgiven for swiftly consigning anything containing those words to the dustbin. Continue reading
On 11 October 2022 a unilateral statement in open court [pdf] was read before Nicklin J in the case of Smith v Backhouse. A former lecturer at University College London Dr Christopher Backhouse paid US academic Dr Erica Smith £49,975 in damages to settle High Court privacy and harassment proceedings. Continue reading
The benefits of pet ownership are often understated. Our furry (and not so furry) friends are understood to lower stress levels and provide comfort. Continue reading
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