‘Police should be banned from using live facial recognition technology in all public spaces because they are breaking ethical standards and human rights laws, a study has concluded.’
The Guardian, 27th October 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Now Dacre faces the prospect of seeing the Daily Mail’s parent company Associated Newspapers dragged into a lengthy legal battle, where he could have to give evidence under oath about his newspaper’s activities in the name of journalism. According to a statement issued by lawyers for the six individuals, the claims include allegations of illegal activity such as homes being bugged, deceptive tactics used to obtain private medical information and the tapping of live phone calls.’
The Guardian, 7th October 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Sir Elton John is among several public figures taking legal action against the publisher of the Daily Mail over what they call “gross breaches of privacy”.’
BBC News, 6th October 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The home secretary will examine the possibility of giving anonymity to suspected criminals after concern over the identification and treatment of high-profile people wrongly accused of sexual abuse.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘TikTok could face a £27m fine for failing to protect children’s privacy when they’re using the platform.’
BBC News, 26th September 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Fourteen campaign groups have written an open letter to new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling on him to end the use of facial recognition technology.’
The Independent, 9th September 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Shoppers at a grocery store chain across southern England are being surveilled with facial recognition cameras, prompting a legal complaint by civil rights campaigners.’
The Guardian, 26th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Tech companies should move ahead with controversial technology that scans for child abuse imagery on users’ phones, the technical heads of GCHQ and the UK’s National Cybersecurity Centre have said. So-called “client-side scanning” would involve service providers such as Facebook or Apple building software that monitors communications for suspicious activity without needing to share the contents of messages with a centralised server.’
The Guardian, 21st July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A vulnerable young woman was told by a council investigation she could have stopped the abuse she experienced if she had spoken up sooner.’
BBC News, 15th July 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The “Bill of Rights Bill” (the “Bill”), introduced to Parliament on 22 June this year, has the potential to have significant implications for employment law. Once tribunals and courts accept the Bill’s exhortation to give “great weight” to freedom of speech, the consequences for workplace relations may be profound.’
UK Labour Law, 6th July 2022
Source: uklabourlawblog.com
‘New internet legislation will hand ministers “unprecedented” censorship powers, with significant implications for free speech, new research warns.’
The Independent, 27th June 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Boris Johnson has vowed to level the playing field on which oligarchs stifle those who scrutinise them. How can he do it?’
The Guardian, 8th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Victims of sexual offences have been promised less invasion into their private lives under changes to how evidence is gathered for trials.’
BBC News, 26th May 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The practice of pseudonymising data fails to properly safeguard privacy and this impacts public trust in the use of their health data, according to an academic who recently led a government-commissioned review into the use of health data for the purposes of research and analysis.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th May 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Actor Ricky Tomlinson has described an attempt by a newspaper publisher to have his claim against it over unlawful information gathering thrown out of court as “outrageous and disgusting”.’
The Independent, 28th April 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Dr Evan Harris accepted “substantial damages” from NGN, publisher of the now-defunct News of the World and The Sun, to settle his claim for unlawful information gathering.’
The Independent, 28th April 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Divisional Court (Lord Justice Edis and Mr Justice Lane) have handed down an important judgment concerning the legality of the Government’s policy to search, seize and retain data from the mobile phones of migrants arriving by small boat.’
Blackstone Chambers, 25th March 2022
Source: www.blackstonechambers.com
‘A woman who was gang-raped by men claiming to be Welsh rugby players has sued the police for naming her online.’
BBC News, 7th April 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘On 25 March 2022, the UK High Court ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully and breached human rights and data protection laws by operating a secret, blanket policy of seizing, retaining and extracting data from the mobile phones of asylum seekers arriving by small boat to UK shores between April and November 2020.’
EIN Blog, 25th March 2022
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘Lauren Gardner analyses a Court of Protection ruling on whether proceedings in relation to a 21-year-old woman should be open to the public and whether the judgment should be published.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th March 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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