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The legal protection of online identities

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Kim Waite

Millions of people post comments on the web in response to articles, blogs and stories. Many do so anonymously. What should someone do if they want to take action against the person responsible for an anonymous posting? In most cases, website owners will not be able to release deta... read more

UK referred to ECJ over internet privacy

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

On 30 September 2010 the European Commission announced that it referred the UK to the European Court of Justice for its alleged failure to implement EU laws on the confidentiality of electronic communications such as emails or internet browsing. The referral follows legal action against the UK by t... read more

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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.