NT1 v Google llc (Information Commissioner intervening)

Subject Matter

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

[2018] EWHC 799 (QB); [2019] QB 344; [2018] 3 WLR 1165; [2018] 3 All ER 581; [2018] WLR (D) 225, QBD

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 — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), ss 4(4), 13, 14, 32, Sch 2, para 6(1), Sch 3, para 5

[2018] EWHC 799 (QB); [2019] QB 344; [2018] 3 WLR 1165; [2018] 3 All ER 581; [2018] WLR (D) 225, QBD

Commentary

Judiciary
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Panopticon blog
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Inforrm's blog
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5RB chambers
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Howards
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UK Human Rights Blog
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Inforrm's blog
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