The First Tier Tribunal has reduced – from £120,000 to £20,000 – the fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on True Vision Productions (TVP) after it filmed patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital without their explicit consent....
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been given permission to serve a privacy claim brought on behalf of their son Archie on the US arm of Splash News and Picture Agency....
Hotel chain Marriott is facing a class action lawsuit after a data breach in which the personal details of 300 million customers worldwide were stolen. It is believed around seven million of those were based in the UK....
The Belgian Data Protection Authority has imposed its largest ever fine on the Belgian arm of tech giant Google for failing to respect a Belgian executive’s right to be forgotten....
Three French Michael Jackson fan clubs are suing the two men who accused Jackson of sexually abusing them in the documentary, Leaving Neverland. The fan clubs – The Michael Jackson Community, the MJ Street and On the Line...
The Australian media world has been rocked by Police action against both national broadcaster the ABC and a journalist at Sydney’s The Sunday Telegraph newspaper....
The US state of California is set to introduce privacy legislation in the form of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) which may have a similarly wide-ranging impact to the GDPR....
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined True Vision Productions (TVP) £120,000 for filming patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s maternity assessment unit without their explicit consent....
Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky have settled a privacy claim they brought on behalf of their children against Associated Newspapers....
A case brought against comedian Louise Beamont by her estranged husband over material contained in her Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show ‘Hard Mode’ has settled....
Supermarket Morrisons faces paying a substantial sum in damages after the Court of Appeal confirmed it was liable for a data breach deliberately carried out by an employee....
Two German men, convicted of murder in 1993, who attempted to have their convictions removed from media archives, have had their case rejected by the European Court of Human Rights....
Two unnamed men are suing Google in the first ‘right to be forgotten’ case to reach the English courts....
The Government has announced a ‘statement of intent’ for a data protection bill. The proposals for the most part incorporate into UK law the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). ...
The BBC has defended the claim brought against it for invasion of privacy and breach of data protection obligations....