Personal data is intimately connected to privacy (art 8, ECHR) but is regulated by specific data protection regimes, such as the UK GDPR. Attention-grabbing legal issues arising out of Big Data dominate the public discourse around data protection: can generative AI use datasets without breaching intellectual property laws; how should the NHS use its mass of personal data; should we be compensated for the value of the data we provide to tech companies who go on to use it in advertising.
But on the other end of the scale from big data claims sits what might be thought of as ‘small data’ – issues around the use of one individual person’s data and the sometimes serious effects that can have. Jasper Gold joins Lucy McCann in a new episode of Law Pod UK to discuss the intersection of data protection, distress and personal injury, and consider some of the legal and tactical issues for litigants involved in these claims.
The cases discussed in the episode are:
- Bekoe v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Islington [2023] EWHC 1668 (KB)
- Brown v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis & Anor (2016), Claim No. 3YM09078 (at first instance) and [2019] EWCA Civ 1724 (in the Court of Appeal, on the issue of qualified one way costs shifting)
- Driver v Crown Prosecution Service [2022] EWHC 2500 (KB)
- Rolfe v Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP [2021] EWHC 2809 (QB)
- TLT & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2016] EWHC 2217 (QB)
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