This July, British Airways (“ BA”) settled its long-running class action dispute with a number of the 420,000 people affected by a 2018 data breach. The settlement terms remain confidential, although we do know that: (a) compensation has been paid to qualifying claimants; and (b) no admission of liability on the part of BA is included. The claimant recorded the inside of a Latvian police station whist he was there giving a statement. It was contested by the Latvian Data Protection Agency that this infringed Latvian data protection laws. The CJEU found that an individual filming police officers undertaking their duties in a police station and posting it online constituted processing of personal data, but may be covered by the journalistic purposes exemption under the Data Protection Directive. DLA Piper and the Panopticon Blog have analysis. R (Open Rights Group and the 3 million) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others [2021] EWCA Civ 800,

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Data persistence – data existing longer than the human subjects that created it, driven by low data storage costs HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Limited [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) and [2021] EWCA Civ 1810. Following a drunken altercation with a police officer the claimant was dismissed from his role at the National Crime Agency (“NCA”). The claimant then pursued a case for breach of the Data Protection Act (“DPA”). The analysis of the issues in the judgment provides significant insight into the application of the DPA. There was a Panopticon blog post about the case.The Court was asked a number of questions, all of which broadly related to the question of how the prohibitions on processing sensitive personal data under the Directive applied to search engines. The claimants wished to have various results from searches of their names dereferenced from Google’s search results. The Court concluded that there was no blanket prohibition on the processing of sensitive personal data by search engines under the Data Protection Directive, thus refusing to compel the dereferencing of results. The European Law Blog has commentary. A friend of Kaye had been granted an interlocutory injunction preventing the editor (Anthony Robertson) and the Sunday Sport from using the material; they appealed.

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The issue of whether Meghan was “the sole author”, or whether Jason Knauf, formerly communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was a “co-author”, should be determined at a trial, despite being something “of minor significance in the overall context”, the judge said. I confirm I am a lawyer or work in a legal capacity, intend to use LexisNexis products for business purposes and agree with the terms and conditions. ** A primary concern with artificial intelligence is its potential to replicate, reinforce or amplify harmful biases. Such biases can proliferate depending on the nature of the data collection performed, a process that may also result in issues such as the spillover effects introduced in an earlier paragraph.

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Associated Newspapers was granted permission appeal and the appeal was heard on 9 and 11 November 2021 with judgment being handed down on 2 December 2021, The Court, Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Sharp P and Bean LJ, unanimously dismissed the appeal on all grounds, stating: In 2017, the Economist found that half of the world’s countries scored lower for democracy than the previous year, mainly because of the erosion of confidence in government and public institutions. In alignment with this, according to the Director Journal, in 2017, the 28th Governor General of Canada articulated the growing and “disturbing” global pattern of mistrust in institutions, finding for the first time in the same year that less than half of Canadians trust their government, business, media, non-governmental organizations, and their leaders. In the judgment written by Lord Hamblen and Lord Stephens, they said: “For some time, judges have voiced concerns as to the negative effect on an innocent person’s reputation of the publication that he or she is being investigated by the police or an organ of the state.”

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Alex (Sandy) Pentland is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences with the Media Lab, Sloan School of Management, and College of Computing at MIT. Sandy directs MIT’s Connection Science and Human Dynamics research laboratories, advises the OECD, UN, and previously AT&T, Google, and American Bar Association, and co-led the World Economic Forum Personal Data initiatives.The court held for the defendant that no such liability existed, as (a) the GDPR would have referred to ‘representative liability’“ more clearly in its operative provisions” had it intended to impose this, (b) Representatives do not have power over controllers or processors “ on a day to day basis over how and why data are processed”, and (c) the European Data Protection Board (“ EDPB”) guidelines state Representatives are “ not responsible for complying with data subject rights”. As such, the remedies sought could only be obtained directly from WorldCo.

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A spokesperson for Associated Newspapers said: “We are very surprised by today’s summary judgment and disappointed at being denied the chance to have all the evidence heard and tested in open court at a full trial. We are carefully considering the judgment’s contents and will decide in due course whether to lodge an appeal.” For an introduction to the data protection regimes under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR) or the Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), see: Data protection toolkit and Practice Note: The Data Protection Act 2018. For an introduction to the data protection regime under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998), see: Data protection regime—DPA 1998—overview [Archived].

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Where a breach is “non-trivial”, a claimant will only be able to claim damages where they can prove that they have suffered “damage” (as defined under the appropriate legislation). Under the GDPR and DPA 2018, persons whose rights under the GDPR are infringed are entitled to compensation where they have suffered “material or non-material damage”, the latter of which “includes distress”. Limits recoverability of After-The-Event (“ ATE)” insurance premiums which had been common for claimants in low-value data claims typically for breach of confidence and misuse of private information claims to cover their costs and to pressure defendants into settling (and in paying more money to settle) by having to factor in ATE premiums when considering their costs liability. Since it is no longer clear that ATE premiums will be recoverable in such cases, claimants will need to give greater thought to purchasing this (particularly where cases involve data breaches) which may reduce the number of claims in which this tactic is deployed by claimants. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the National Do Not Call Registry regulate telemarketing calling and automated telephone dialing. The TCPA prohibits certain types of solicitation calls, while the Do Not Call Registry allows consumers to opt out of telemarketing calls.