Big Brother Watch and Others v UK (ECtHR on Mass Surveillance)
This article reviews Big Brother Watch and Others v UK in the European Court of Human Rights.
Tag: Privacy
PODCAST: DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY IN 2020
A podcast summarising developments in data protection and privacy in 2020.
Data Protection and Privacy in 2020: A Recap
An article summarising the developments in data protection and privacy in 2020.
Podcast: R (Bridges) v the Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2020] EWCA Civ 1058
This is a podcast summarising a UK Court of Appeal case about facial recognition technology.
Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps: An Overview
In the U.K., and elsewhere in the world, the burning question at the moment is how we move forward in this pandemic, not just from a health perspective, but from an economic perspective as well. We all want to know what the so-called ‘exit strategy’ will be. One of the possible facets of the strategy […]
Get Legally Speaking podcast Part 1
In this podcast, I discuss data protection and the GDPR with Hatti Suvari. Get Legally Speaking is a podcast series that is supported by the Bar Council, which aims to explain different areas of law to the public. This is Part 1 of a series of podcasts related to data protection and privacy that will […]
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and another [2019] UKSC 27: A Summary (the test of serious harm in UK defamation cases)
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and another [2019] UKSC 27 To read the judgment click here. The Supreme Court has clarified the approach to the serious harm test in section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 (“the Act”). Section 1: (1) A statement is not defamatory unless its publication has caused or is likely to […]
Balancing human and machine perspectives: what is the ‘public interest’ in the AI era?
By Tom Orrell & Melissa Stock Privacy law has never been a straightforward affair in England. Its development has been piecemeal over the past two centuries.[1] In fact the laws that govern information today are spread across multiple frameworks, including: libel (protecting reputation), data protection (rights over the processing of personal data), breach of confidence […]
DB v The General Medical Council [2018] EWCA Civ 1497
This is an overview of DB v The General Medical Council (‘GMC’) [2018] EWCA Civ 1497 in the Court of Appeal. It is now the leading judgment in the approach to be taken on disclosure in so-called mixed personal data cases – that is subject access requests where the information requested by the data subject […]
The E-Privacy Regulation: An Overview
This is an overview of the e-Privacy Regulation (‘ePR’), which will replace Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications), or ‘e-Privacy Directive’. The e-Privacy Directive protects the confidentiality of electronic communications and applies to publicly available electronic communications services. In the U.K., the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (“PECR”) implements the e-Privacy Directive. In […]
