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Public Health Wales accidentally publishes 18,000 coronavirus patients’ data

IT Governance

Public Health Wales has confirmed that it accidentally published the personal data of 18,105 people who tested positive for coronavirus. Public Health Wales Chief Executive Tracey Cooper told BBC Wales that the failure was one of the “biggest data breaches” she had come across and that it “should never have happened”.

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Good news for data controllers: Lloyd v Google Supreme Court decision

Data Protection Report

On 10 November 2021, the UK Supreme Court handed down the much anticipated judgment in Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50, unanimously allowing Google’s appeal and reversing the decision of the Court of Appeal. Click here to read our summary of the decision and our take on the implications.

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Top UK court blocks legal action against Google over internet tracking

The Guardian Data Protection

Campaigners sought to sue for £3bn damages on behalf of millions of iPhone users in England and Wales A £3bn legal action against Google over claims it secretly tracked the internet activity of millions of iPhone users has been blocked by the UK supreme court.

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UK: Lloyd v Google LLC – data protection class action claims

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Followers of Privacy Matters will be familiar with the case of Lloyd v Google LLC , which raises important issues as to the recoverability of compensation for breaches of data protection law, and is likely to be pivotal to the mass claims landscape in the UK.

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2023 Retrospective: One year at CILIP & 125 years of Chartership

CILIP

Our Green Libraries Partnership (now known as the Green Libraries Campaign) held its inaugural conference that brought 100s of professionals from local authorities and libraries from across the UK into discussions on the importance and impact of libraries during the climate crisis.

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Copyright: The demise of ‘skill, labour and effort’?

CILIP

In the UK, museums and other bodies have relied on digital images of public domain artworks qualifying as ‘original’ in so far as they resulted from the considerable skill, labour and effort of their photographers. This presents a dilemma for most of the UK’s museums and galleries.

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NCA arrested 21 customers of the WeLeakInfo service

Security Affairs

NCA arrested 21 people in the UK as part of an operation targeting customers of WeLeakInfo service that advertised stolen personal credentials. 21 people have been arrested in the UK as part of an operation against customers of the WeLeakInfo[.]com ” reads the announcement published by the UK NCA.