For the most part, social media users in democracies are free to express their opinions online. In Spain, however, that’s not the case. 
Cassandra Vera, a 21-year-old student from the city of Murcia in the south-east of Spain, has been sentenced to a year in prison, and disqualified from public functions for seven years, after making jokes on Twitter that “glorified terrorism”. Read the rest of this entry »
The right to be forgotten – which can be best described as a right to be delisted – was recognized by the CJEU on the assumption that the search engine operator, Google Inc., is a data controller of the personal data included in the search results. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week’s decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case concerning proceedings brought by a Spanish national against Google (Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González) is already being widely heralded as creating ‘the right to be forgotten’. Read the rest of this entry »
In an important new privacy judgment the Spanish Constitutional Court has held that a television company violated the right to privacy of Gonzalo Miró Romero, son of the late Pilar Miró, by speculating about the identity of his father, a fact that he and his mother had never made public. Read the rest of this entry »
While the privacy complaint of the Duchess of Cambridge received unprecedented attention from the press and legal commentators alike, the Spanish Supreme Court recently found itself grappling with a number of similar issues.
In 2007, the Spanish media was shocked by the publication of pictures of a famous Spanish actress, Elsa Pataky, in a state of considerable undress on a Mexican beach. She was getting changed while shooting a feature for the magazine ELLE when two paparazzi took pictures of her from a hotel some distance from the beach. Read the rest of this entry »
