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
The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has, for only the second time in its history, successfully prosecuted individuals under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (the “Act”) in order to impose harsher criminal penalties for unauthorised access to personal data, (including prison sentences and confiscation orders), than are available under the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA 2018”).
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