Data subject rights
We work with individuals to understand and enforce their rights as data subjects, often as a precursor to litigation or in the context of a dispute, including making data subject access requests, and issuing notices for rectification of personal data, the restriction of personal data, the erasure of personal data, to object to processing, and for data portability.
Where these rights are not complied with, we can also support individuals to complain to the relevant data controller and, if necessary, to complain to the relevant supervisory authority, such as the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK or the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.
We can also advise and represent clients before the First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights).
Reputation management
Individuals, as well as corporate entities, can all too readily find that false or private information about them is published and rapidly spreads across the internet, posing a threat to their reputations, livelihoods and profit margins.
We work with individuals and corporate entities to identify false or private information about them online or published by media organisations, content producers and hosts, and to secure its removal.
Relying on causes of action including defamation, malicious falsehood, data protection, misuse of private information, breach of confidence, harassment, and copyright infringement, as well as on industry codes of practice such as the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines, the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s Editors’ Code of Practice, and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, we can engage with either or both of the originating publisher or intermediaries such as social media platforms and ISPs to restrict and remove material, and to prevent it from being republished in future.
The March 2024 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, On Hand, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI and machine learning, content regulation, open justice, access to information, reputation management, digital markets regulation, human rights & ESG. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.