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Anonymity order lifted in marital privacy case

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Louise Turner

A High Court judge has lifted an anonymity order protecting the identity of a formerly married couple involved in a privacy dispute. In Stephani...

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The Article 8 rights of sex offenders

Posted on February 24, 2011 by David Hooper

A recent decision of the Supreme Court has unleashed a populist wave directed at the European Court of Human Rights and European judges generally. I...

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Max Mosley and the public interest in exposing hypocrisy

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

In an interesting interview with the Financial Times, the UK's most indomitable privacy claimant, Max Mosley, challenges the notion that there might b...

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Forced sterilisation case heard in public

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Clare Jaycock

On 15 February 2011 Hedley J ordered that a case proceeding in the Court of Protection which featured medical information of the highest sensitivity s...

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ICO fines councils for losing laptops

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Alex Hamer

On 8 February 2011 the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued two monetary penalty notices for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act. ...

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No privacy in Tweets

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Brid Jordan

Publicly accessible postings on Twitter and other social media are not private, according to rulings by the Press Complaints Commission. The rulings ...

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Supreme Court welcomes Twitter

Posted on February 08, 2011 by Louise Jacobs

The use of Twitter is now officially sanctioned in the Supreme Court. In a previous posting we discussed the Lord Chief Justice's guidance on the use...

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Shock decision: sportsman not unmasked

Posted on February 01, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

The identity of the sportsman officially known as JIH remains confidential. Those newspapers hoping to unmask him in the event that the Court of Appe...

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RPC Privacy Law Articles

This blog features regular postings on developments in UK privacy law written by specialist lawyers at RPC. The postings are intended to keep RPC's Privacy Law Handbook (see below) as up-to-date as possible and while postings do refer readers to relevant sections of the book, we hope and intend that the blog will also be a useful source of current information to those without access to the book.