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Keeping control of personal information in the digital age: Efficacy and equivalence of tortious and GDPR/DPA remedial relief? (2022)
Journal Article
Brimblecombe, F., & Fenwick, H. (2022). Keeping control of personal information in the digital age: Efficacy and equivalence of tortious and GDPR/DPA remedial relief?. Law Quarterly Review, 138, 456-480

A global recognition of the threat to the protection of private information online, coming in particular from the big “tech” companies, is currently increasingly apparent. The same concerns, this article will argue, are driving significant legislati... Read More about Keeping control of personal information in the digital age: Efficacy and equivalence of tortious and GDPR/DPA remedial relief?.

Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information (2022)
Journal Article
Brimblecombe, F., & Fenwick, H. (2022). Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 73(AD1), 26-73. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v73iAD1.937

Globally, enhanced data protection schemes are being introduced in the face of threats to privacy in the digital era. In England and Wales protection from one such threat – from unconsented-to disclosures of private information online - is covered by... Read More about Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information.

Regaining digital privacy? The new "right to be forgotten" and online expression (2018)
Journal Article
Brimblecombe, F., & Phillipson, G. (2018). Regaining digital privacy? The new "right to be forgotten" and online expression. Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, 4, 1-66

This article considers how the newly-formulated "Right to be Forgotten" in Article 17 of the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation will apply to "online expression", that is, content placed online via social and other forms of media. It starts... Read More about Regaining digital privacy? The new "right to be forgotten" and online expression.