“The publisher of the Guardian has rejected a new press self-regulator as proposed by the industry, saying that the proposed funding method threatens its independence and that the biggest national newspapers will call the shots.”
The Guardian, 6th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 999 operator who went on sick leave due to stress has won an £11,000 pay-off from the fire service after it hired a private investigator to spy on her and secretly fitted a GPS tracker underneath her car.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Health watchdogs will be given powers to take action against hospitals that allow private companies to roam NHS maternity wards bombarding mothers with marketing material, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.”
The Independent, 4th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Robert Brown examines the implications for eDisclosure when a company’s data has moved into cyberspace.”
New Law Journal, 19th July 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
“Andrzej Bojarski of 36 Bedford Row examines the law and the latest guidance relating to self help disclosure.”
Family Law Week, 18th July 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Employers must get their social media policies in order, say Chris Bryden & Michael Salter.”
New Law Journal, 19th July 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint that the Daily Telegraph intruded on the privacy of Vicky Pryce by publishing a picture of her in prison. It further rejected a complaint that the publication amounted to harassment.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A sharp rise in the number of privacy hearings in British courts has been fuelled by requests for ‘irrelevant’ personal information to be removed from police and other state databases, figures show.”
The Independent, 22nd July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed complaints from Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and his partner Carina Trimingham levelled against five national newspapers over photographs of the pair at Leyhill prison.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Six people have been wrongly detained and falsely accused of crimes in the past year as a result of mistakes made in the official disclosure of confidential data on their internet use to the police and security services.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Government lawyers want to overturn decision that criminal records vetting system breaches human rights.”
The Independent, 14th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The court would only depart from open justice if strictly necessary. An application to depart from the principle of open justice would fall to be decided by reference to established principles, whether the proceedings were at an interim or final stage. A significant erosion of the open justice principle could not be justified where adequate protection existed in the form of vindication of the innocent through the judicial process to trial. The public airing of allegations which might embarrass a litigant was not a good reason to close the doors of the court.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Seven of the UK’s leading human rights groups and privacy campaigners have demanded an urgent review of the laws being used to authorise the mass collection and analysis of data by Britain’s spy centre, GCHQ.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The tension between transparency and individual privacy is part of what makes information rights such a fascinating and important area. When it comes to high-public interest issues involving particular individuals, prevailing wisdom has tended to be something like this: say as much as possible on an open basis, but redact and anonymise so as to protect the identity of the individuals involved. Increasingly, however, transparency is outmuscling privacy. See for example my post about the Tribunal’s order of disclosure, in the FOIA context, of the details of the compensation package of a Chief Executive of an NHS Trust (the case of Dicker v IC (EA/2012/0250).”
Panopticon, 11th July 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“A decision to continue to withhold crucial details from a damning report on widespread abuse in children’s homes has been strongly criticised by victims, lawyers and child protection experts.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“FOCUS: Companies operating in the European Union must process personal data in line with the EU’s Data Protection Directive. But, like Google in recent years, they find themselves facing very different enforcement regimes in each country.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A senior lawyer has taken out a gagging order typically reserved for philandering footballers to cover up details of his affair with a younger woman.”
The Independent, 4th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Sky has avoided regulatory action over its admission that it hacked into emails belonging to a man who faked his own death and those belonging to his wife.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned public sector bodies that they face being fined for breaching data protection laws if they disclose “hidden” personal information in their responses to freedom of information (FOI) requests.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“BSkyB has been cleared of breaking the broadcasting code for hacking the emails belonging to John Darwin, the ‘canoe man’ accused of faking his own death, following an investigation by Ofcom.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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