A High Court ruling confirmed the limited extent to which data breach claims can successfully argue misuse of private information and breach of confidence. In the case of Stadler v Currys, the ruling was awarded to the controller. The claimant sought £5000 in damages after a movie was purchased from his Amazon Prime account through a TV sent in for repair. Curry's wrote off this TV, compensated Mr Stadler for the loss and then sold the TV without performing a factory reset or data wipe. This led to the rental of a £3.49 movie. As further compensation, Currys reimbursed the cost of the movie and offered a £200 shopping voucher as a gesture of goodwill. The claim brought against Currys was for MoPI, BoC, negligence and breach of Article 82 of the UK GDPR and sections 168 and 169 of the UK Data Protection Act 2018.
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