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Our expert consultants at Handley Gill share their knowledge and advice on emerging data protection, privacy, content regulation, reputation management, cyber security, and information access issues in our blog.

Posts tagged Right to Freedom of Expression
Won’t you forget about me?
Won’t you forget about me?

Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants highlight the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB’s) announcement of action throughout 2025 under its Co-ordinated Enforcement Framework on the right to erasure, or right to be forgotten, under Article 17 GDPR, identifying likely recipients, how controllers can prepare and how they might respond.

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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, EU GDPR, Right to Erasure, Right to be Forgotten, Article 17 GDPR, European Data Protection Board, EDPB, Coordinated Enforcement Framework, C-131/12, Google Spain, Google Spain & another v AEPD & Costeja Gonzalez, Article 21 GDPR, Article 21(1) GDPR, Article 21(2) GDPR, Right to Freedom of Expression, Right to freedom of expression and information, Fundamental Rights & Freedoms, Article 58 GDPR, Article 62 GDPR, Co-ordinated Enforcement Framework, CEF, Data Subject Rights, EDPB Guidelines 5/2019, EDPB Guidelines on Right to Be Forgotten, AI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Regulation, Article 17(1)(d) GDPRComment
Slapp down
Slapp down

Additional protections to be granted to defendants to protect free speech in defamation, data protection and misuse of private information claims concerning economic crime from SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) in government amendment to Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

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Nicola CainSLAPPs, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Defamation, Libel, Slander, Data Protection, Data Litigation, Freedom of Expression, Right to Freedom of Expression, Right to freedom of expression and information, Misuse of Private Information, Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10 ECHR, Article 8 ECHR, Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights, Article 7 European Charter of Fundamental Freedoms, Article 8 European Charter of Fundamental Freedoms, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, Special Purposes Exemption, Special Purposes Processing, Journalism Exemption, Journalism, Journalism Art or Literature, Economic crime, Civil Procedure Rules, Costs budgeting, Freedom of Speech, Free speech, Combatting economic crime, Combating economic crime, Harassment, Litigation, Privacy, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, SLAPP, ANTI-SLAPP, AntiSlapp, Reputation ManagementComment
Stop the Clock
Stop the Clock

Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants analyse the ICO’s monetary penalty notice fining TikTok £12.7m over its processing of children’s personal data, the implications for providers of information society services and identify potential grounds for TikTok’s appeal.

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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, UK GDPR, Data Protection Enforcement, Monetary Penalty Notice, Children, Children's Data, Online Safety, Online Harms, Article 8 UK GDPR, Information Society Services, Article 5(1)(a) UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR, Conditions for consent, Consent, Data Protection Principles, Article 12 UK GDPR, Article 13 UK GDPR, Notice of Intent, Age Assurance, Age Verification, Information Commissioner, ICO, Ofcom, Children's Personal Data, Article 8(1) UK GDPR, Article 8(2) UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(b) UK GDPR, Privacy Notice, Privacy Policy, Schedule 2 Part 5 Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 2 Part 5 Paragraph 26 Data Protection Act 2018, Special Purposes Exemption, Journalism Art or Literature, Journalism Exemption, Journalistic Academic Artistic and Literary Purposes, Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998, Article 10 ECHR, Article 10 European Convention on Human Rights, Right to Freedom of Expression, Regulatory Action Policy, TikTok, ByteDanceComment
Bill of Rights... and Wrongs?
Bill of Rights... and Wrongs?

Handley Gill considers the impact of the Bill of Rights (Bill 117 2022/23), which would repeal and replace the Human Rights Act 1998, on the law of data protection, privacy and freedom of expression in the UK.

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Nicola CainBill of Rights, Bill 117 2022/23, Human Rights Act 1998, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, Human Rights, Supreme Court, Article 8, Right to respect for private and family life, Privacy, Misuse of Private Information, Right to Freedom of Expression, Article 10, Right to free speech, Free speech, Freedom of Speech, Jury trial, Standing, Victim, Permission, Prior restraint, Protection of journalistic sources, s10 Contempt of Court Act 1981, European Commission, Adequacy Decision, UK Adequacy, Data Protection, Data Protection Act 2018, Online Safety Bill, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Compensation, Damages, Satakunnan Markkinapörssi Oy and Satamedia Oy v. Finland [GC] (931/13), Douglas v Hello! Ltd [2001] QB 967, s12 Human Rights Act 1998, Clause 2(a) Bill of Rights, Clause 3(1) Bill of Rights, Clause 3(3)(b) Bill of Rights, Clause 4(1) Bill of Rights, Clause 9(2)(d) Bill of Rights, Clause 15(1) Bill of Rights, Clause 17(3) Bill of Rights, Clause 18(1) Bill of Rights, Clause 21 Bill of Rights, Sir Cliff Richard v (1) BBC and (2) Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [2017] EWHC 1291 (Ch), Clause 22 Bill of RightsComment