Is Someone Watching You? Data Privacy and Protection: Current Issues

Jackie Fishleigh

doi:10.1017/S1472669615000183

Is Someone Watching You? Data Privacy and Protection: Current Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2015

Jackie Fishleigh

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Abstract

In this piece Jackie Fishleigh offers her views on the rather edgy and menacing world of data privacy and protection, focusing on developments during the last year. Her article provides a summary of the key issues that are currently being discussed and debated, including at BIALL's own annual conference which took place last year in Harrogate.

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internet social media privacy data protection

Type: Current Issues
Information: Legal Information Management , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 61 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669615000183 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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¹ Information Age, June 2014, p.1

² Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González. Case number C-131/12

³ The BIALL Conference held in Harrogate on 11^th to 14^th June 2014 featured three speakers. Their talks are referenced here in this article. The talks were: Bradley, “Phil. Data, data everywhere”. Delivered on 12 June 2014; Weckler, Adrian. “The New Gold Rush”. Delivered on 12^th June 2014; Blakeman, Karen. “The Brave New World of Free, Open Data and Open Access”. Delivered on 11^th June 2014.

⁴ op. cit. 2

⁵ http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/25/right-to-be-forgotten-google-wikipedia-jimmy-wales (accessed: 23 January 2015)

⁶ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10945451/Google-asked-to-remove-over-250000-links.html (accessed: 23 January 2015)

⁷ ibid

⁸ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/right-to-be-forgotten-google-accused-of-deliberately-misinterpreting-court-decision-to-stoke-public-anger-9582985.html

⁹ ibid

¹⁰ ibid

¹¹ bid

¹² op.cit. 3

¹³ http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/

¹⁴ http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/news/personal-injury/claims-management/british-facebook-users-may-not-%E2%80%98like%E2%80%99-lack-legal-protection (accessed: 26 January 2014)

¹⁵ ibid