August | 2025 | informationrightsandwrongs
1 post published by Jon Baines during August 2025| informationrightsandwrongs
1 post published by Jon Baines during August 2025| informationrightsandwrongs
It is a principle of parliamentary sovereignty that Parliament’s law making powers are not subject to any restriction, and therefore Parliament cannot bind its successors (see e.g. Dicey: “Parliame…| informationrightsandwrongs
2 posts published by Jon Baines during July 2025| informationrightsandwrongs
In his inaugural speech as Information Commissioner, in 2022, John Edwards said my focus is on bringing certainty in what the law requires of you and your organisations, and in how the regulator ac…| informationrightsandwrongs
I’ve written up my thoughts for the Mishcon de Reya website, on the baffling decision by the ICO to take no action in response to the most catastrophic data breach in UK history, which exposed many…| informationrightsandwrongs
“Pretexting” and “blagging” are forms of social engineering whereby someone attempts to extract information from a source by deception. One (unethical) example is when a journalist purports to be s…| informationrightsandwrongs
6 posts published by Jon Baines during June 2025| informationrightsandwrongs
Section 1(2) of the Data Protection Act 2018 tells us that Most processing of personal data is subject to the UK GDPR Despite the attention given to the progress of the Data (Use and Access) Act 20…| informationrightsandwrongs
An interesting recent judgment in the High Court considers the extent to which rules in defamation law might also apply to data protection claims. In July 2024 His Honour Judge Lewis struck out a claim in defamation brought by Dale … Continue reading →| informationrightsandwrongs
In the run-up to last year’s General Election, the campaigning group The Good Law Project (GLP) actively encouraged people to make subject access requests (under Article 15 of the UK GDPR) to political parties, and they say that they enabled … Continue reading →| informationrightsandwrongs
The Information Tribunal has ruled that the Nuclear New Build Generation Company, a subsidiary of EDF Energy, created to construct s new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C (HPC), is a public authority for the purposes of the Environmental … Continue reading →| informationrightsandwrongs
The issue of the legality of the making of, and subsequent use of, covert audio and/or visual recordings of individuals is a complex one – even more so when it comes to whether such recordings can be adduced as evidence … Continue reading →| informationrightsandwrongs
[EDIT: in this post I originally said I understood that the current parliamentary session would end when Parliament rises for summer recess. Prompted by Andrew Harvey, on the Jiscmail Data Protection list, I checked this point, and I was wrong: … Continue reading →| informationrightsandwrongs
News and comments from a UK Information Rights perspective| informationrightsandwrongs
9 posts published by Jon Baines during March 2025| informationrightsandwrongs
When it comes to proposed legislation, most data protection commentary has understandably been on the Data (Use and Access) Bill, but it’s important also to note some of the provisions of the Publi…| informationrightsandwrongs
