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Data rights of individuals and corporations as pertains to international law. A major focus here is GDPR, as was EU Privacy Shield. Also look at technologies both enhancing and compromising privacy
By Legal Week | October 21, 2011
The tabloids advance two main arguments for invading privacy to reveal someone's sex life. The first is that their victim is a role model who must be exposed if he has not behaved impeccably. The second is that it's their job to expose hypocrites who mislead the public by saying one thing and doing another. Both arguments are flawed. The role model argument is hopeless. A famous sportsman is undoubtedly a role model when practising his sport. You would not want a famous footballer to foul consistently lest other, lesser footballers followed his example. But he's not a role model in his sex life. Sex is not the reason for his fame nor the reason he's admired. It's irrelevant to his 'role' which is playing football.
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By Suzi Ring | October 21, 2011
A claim of alleged slander brought by Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowski against Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson has been struck out of court. Kordowski had claimed Hudson slandered him in comments he allegedly made to Professor John Flood of the University of Westminster in which, according to a blog published by Flood on 22 July this year, he called Kordowski a "criminal".
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By Sofia Lind | October 19, 2011
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and media boutique Russells Solicitors are advising on the a dispute between former Smiths frontman Morrissey and music magazine NME which could see one of the first UK libel cases heard before a jury in recent years. NME has requested to strike out the libel lawsuit, which was brought against the magazine's former editor Conor McNicholas and its publisher IPC Media by Morrissey four years ago.
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By Suzi Ring | October 18, 2011
The draft Defamation Bill does not go far enough to address the "unacceptably" high costs of libel cases, according to the committee charged with reviewing the bill. In a report issued today (19 October), the committee of six MPs and six peers has recommended that the proposal to promote early dispute resolution outside of court should be taken a step further and made enforceable, with "a presumption that mediation or neutral evaluation will be the norm."
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By Suzi Ring | October 17, 2011
News Corporation has parted ways with legal adviser Farrer & Co and appointed Olswang to advise it on all civil claims relating to phone-hacking at the News of the World (NoW). Farrers has been the primary adviser to the now-defunct tabloid throughout the phone-hacking scandal, and is understood to have advised on more than 60 cases taken out by alleged victims.
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By Legal Week | October 17, 2011
In the last three years The Guardian has published over 200 articles relating to Trafigura, the vast majority of which have referred to the 'super-injunction' which the company obtained against the newspaper and to Carter-Ruck's apparent attempts to gag the reporting of Parliament. Despite this saturation coverage, some questions remain unanswered. Before I turn to the questions I want to say something about the basic facts of the case which have become entirely lost in the furore about 'gags', superinjunctions and parliamentary privilege.
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By Legal Week | September 19, 2011
Nine years ago, in March 2002, Amanda 'Milly' Dowler was on her way home from school. She was kidnapped and murdered and her body was found in September 2002. In June 2011, Levi Bellfield was convicted of her murder and sentenced to a 'whole life' tariff. When Milly went missing, journalists of the News of the World newspaper hacked into her voicemail. The fact that this had happened came to public prominence in July 2011 when The Guardian revealed the story.
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By Legal Week | September 14, 2011
Between 2007 and 2011 I was embroiled in what has become one of the most controversial libel cases in recent history. The claimant in my case wasn't a Russian oligarch, an A-list celebrity or an Arab billionaire (groups who seem to issue writs like they are going out of fashion) but a seemingly innocuous super-wealthy self-styled 'holy man' from the Punjab (a state in Northern India) who is reported never to have stepped foot in Britain nor apparently reads, writes or speaks any English. He went by the grandiose title His Holiness Sant Baba Jeet Singh ji Maharaj.
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By Legal Week | August 31, 2011
There have been a number of recent reports based on some research by Sweet & Maxwell into defamation cases. The Guardian headline is Rise in defamation cases involving blogs and Twitter while The Independent tells readers Online libel cases double. This does not give the full picture.
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By Legal Week | August 26, 2011
On 26 April 2011, on a point of order but in apparent breach of a High Court injunction, Mr John Hemming MP claimed that Vicky Haigh, a horse trainer and former jockey, "was the subject of an attempt by Doncaster council to imprison her for speaking at a meeting in Parliament". A number of Twitter accounts subsequently disclosed that the injunction had been granted in family proceedings in which Ms Haigh had claimed that her former partner, David Tune, was a paedophile who had abused their daughter for some years.
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By Allison Dunn | July 3, 2023
The district court looked to case law out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for guidance.
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By Alex Anteau | June 30, 2023
"While the broader importance of this decision relates to medical malpractice cases, patient privacy and how the competing interests of litigants and privacy come together, for us it's a vindication [Scott Bailey] deserved," said defendant-appellant Page Powell.
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By Isha Marathe | June 29, 2023
July 1 will see data privacy statutes in California, Connecticut and Colorado either come online or start to be enforced.
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By Sid Mody and Juan Antonio Solis | June 29, 2023
The new Texas law applies to businesses that process or sell personal data to third parties.
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By Cassandre Coyer | June 28, 2023
The puzzle of data privacy legislation in the U.S. became significantly more complex in the first half of 2023.
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By Alaina Lancaster | June 28, 2023
The lawsuit likens Open AI's alleged privacy violations to complaints against Clearview AI for scraping photos off the internet for commercial gain.
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By Brad Kutner | June 28, 2023
Many cases brought under Bork-era law are going to arbitration rather than litigation.
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By Amanda O'Brien | June 23, 2023
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby has banned the use of the generative AI tool in the office. "The risks are just way too high," said chair Andrew Indeck.
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By Bill Piwonka, Exterro | June 22, 2023
Businesses and their legal departments alike are at risk of being overwhelmed by DSARs, and by the amount of data they will need to locate and review to fulfill them. Now is the time for businesses to take appropriate steps to prepare for the deluge.
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By Maria Dinzeo | June 22, 2023
"We have yet to see a ruling at the heart of the matter, and until we see such a ruling we're not going to see these things go away," said Michael Bahar, a partner at Eversheds Sutherland.
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