The England and Wales Court of Appeal delivered a decision in April that IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene called “the European Judicial Privacy Decision of a Decade,” invalidating a section of the UK Data Protection Act and establishing affirmatively that “moral damage” is recoverable under privacy law. On Tuesday, however, the UK Supreme Court agreed to hear Google’s appeal of Google v. Vidal-Hall, and the impact of the decision will be wide-ranging. IAPP European correspondent Jennifer Baker has the news for The Privacy Advisor.
Full Story