Ruling increases risk of data protection claims for foreign media

25/01/2022 | Pinsent Masons

Overseas publishers and foreign media are more likely to be on the receiving end of data protection claims before the English courts following a recent Court of Appeal ruling. The Soriano v Forensic News LLC judgement clarified the territorial scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. As a result, English judges could interpret the decision in the context of overseas publishers and claims on companies based outside of England and Wales.

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