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19.01.18
Claims farmer fined for blagging personalised number plate information from DVLA
Miles Savory, the director of Accident Claims Handlers Ltd, has been convicted of breaching the Data Protection Act 1998 following a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) for unlawfully obtaining the name and address of the owner of personalised number plates that he was seeking to purchase. Mr Savory completed and sent official…
Read more12.10.17
Fines for data breaches and the General Data Protection Regulation
Much has been made of the imposition of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), to be integrated into UK law via the Data Protection Bill (“DPB”), in anticipation of its coming into force on 25 May 2018. The rationale behind the GDPR is to provide a legal framework that acknowledges the sensitivity of personal data…
Read more5.03.17
£17,000 damages awarded by Scottish court in neighbour CCTV dispute
An Edinburgh couple have been awarded £8,634 each by a Scottish court as a result of round-the-clock extremely intrusive CCTV surveillance that had been carried out by a neighbour over a number of years. Factual background Mr and Mrs Wooley are a married couple who have lived with their adult son in the upper flat…
Read more15.05.14
'Landmark' ECJ Google ruling on Data Protection Directive
On 13 May 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in the case of Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja Gonzalez (Case C-131/12). Mr Gonzalez had brought a claim against Google after search engine results continued to display an auction notice that had been…
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