Following on from a string of cases in 2021 concerning minor data breaches (see our earlier article here), two further cases in Q1 of 2022 have continued the trend of High Court scepticism. Such compensation claims, usually involving multiple causes of action, often find themselves trimmed down and sent to the County Court, if
2021 was a busy year for UK data litigators as courts got their teeth into some key issues in this developing area. One area of particular focus was how English law approaches the ‘minor’ or ‘inadvertent’ data breach. Such incidents can easily arise; an email copied to the wrong person, usually swiftly deleted, is a
In this case, on the 8th January 2021, a former employee (“D”) of the RAC, (a well-known breakdown and recovery service in the UK and Europe) pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to computer data and to selling unlawfully obtained personal data. The ICO investigation had found that