CG v Facebook Ireland Ltd and Another: CANI 21 Dec 2016

The court was asked as to the liability in damages of information society services, in this case Facebook, for misuse of private information as a result of postings on their sites by third parties. The postings divulged historic sexual ffending.
Held: With the passage of time the protection of an offender by prohibiting the disclosure of previous convictions may be such as to outweigh the interests of open justice.

Judges:

Morgan LCJ Gillen LJ and Weatherup LJ

Citations:

[2016] NICA 54

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Data Protection Act 1998 5

Jurisdiction:

Northern Ireland

Cited by:

CitedNT 1 and NT 2 v Google Llc QBD 13-Apr-2018
Right to be Forgotten is not absolute
The two claimants separately had criminal convictions from years before. They objected to the defendant indexing third party web pages which included personal data in the form of information about those convictions, which were now spent. The claims . .
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Information, Media

Updated: 05 April 2022; Ref: scu.605154