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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2015

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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Current Issues
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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References

Footnotes

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 11th to 14th 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 12th June 2014; Blakeman, Karen. “The Brave New World of Free, Open Data and Open Access”. Delivered on 11th June 2014.

4 op. cit. 2

10 ibid

11 bid

12 op.cit. 3

15 ibid

16 ibid

18 Rosamund Urwin column, London Evening Standard Thursday 26th June 2014 “We must stop making light of online abuse”

19 Ibid

20 op.cit. 3

21 op.cit 3

22 Reported in the Tech Times, 27 July 2014

23 David Haynes. Social Media and Risk. CILIP Update, June 2014

24 Independent 25th June 2014: “Police fail to cope as half of crimes now go online” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-fail-to-cope-as-half-of-nonserious-crimes-now-originate-from-social-media-websites-9560836.html (accessed: 4 February 2015)

26 ibid

28 Simon Bushell, Gail Crawford and Tess Waldron. “Cyber Security: Litigation Risk and Liability”. PLC, June 2014

29 ibid

30 ibid

31 The third annual study by PwC and Iron Mountain to discover how European mid-market companies perceive and manage information risk, 2014.

33 Privacy and Data Protection, 1 June 2014, PDP 14, 6

35 Dominic Crossley (Payne Hicks Beach). Privacy and/or security? First published online, and in print, in: Law Society Gazette, 11 July 2014

36 ibid

37 Tench, Dan. Slipping the net. New Law Journal, 20 June 2014Google Scholar.