The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2019] QB 344
NT1 v Google llc (Information Commissioner intervening)
NT2 v Google llc (Information Commissioner intervening)
[2018] EWHC 799 (QB)
2018 Feb 27,
28;
March 1, 6, 7, 12, 14;
April 13
March 1, 6, 7, 12, 14;
April 13
Warby J
Confidential information— Misuse of private information— Publication on internet— Information about claimants’ spent convictions available on internet via defendant’s search engine— Defendant refusing claimants’ requests to block or erase links to personal information— Claimants bringing proceedings seeking damages for misuse of private information— Whether claimants having reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of information— Whether information misused— Whether damages payable—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10[1]
Data protection— Personal data— Publication on internet— Information about claimants’ spent convictions available on internet via defendant’s search engine— Defendant refusing claimants’ requests to block or erase links to personal information— Claimants bringing proceedings seeking de-lisiting orders and compensation for contraventions of statutory requirements— Whether disguised defamation claims— Whether abuse of process— Whether defendant breaching data protection obligations— Whether information inaccurate— Whether balance of competing rights requiring removal of information concerning spent convictions— Whether statutory defence of processing for purposes of journalism applying— Whether claimants entitled to compensation—
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c 53), s 4
[2]
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Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), ss 4(4), 13, 14, 32, Sch 2, para 6(1), Sch 3, para 5
[3]