As a follow-up to a case mentioned on this site yesterday, and as BBC reports: A 14-year-old boy has won permission to challenge a police decision to publish his photograph in an investigation into street violence in Londonderry. A High Court judge ruled on Wednesday that there was an arguable case that using his image…
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GuestScan hotel blacklist blasted by privacy campaign
Privacy International is taking on a website that hoteliers use to “blacklist” problem guests. The site had been mentioned in previous coverage on this site a few weeks ago. Now Aaron Sharp reports: Personal data watchdog Privacy International has called for a government investigation into a Bristol based company keeping a national blacklist of…
Ca: Pornography charges laid in a gang-rape of teen at B.C. rave
Charges have been laid against a 16-year-old accused of taking pictures of a gang-rape at a British Columbia rave and posting them on the Internet. The teen from Maple Ridge, B.C., has been charged with distributing and producing child pornography after photos of the assault appeared on Facebook. He is expected to appear in court…
UK case law: DFT v TFD and “super-injunctions”
On Monday 27 September 2010, Mrs Justice Sharp handed down an important judgment in a privacy case which had previously been the subject of a so-called “super injunction”. The judgment in the case of DFT v TFD ([2010] EWHC 2335 (QB)) concerned a blackmail case in which a woman was threatening to make public private and…