Privacy and Data Protection in Your Pocket: Personal Data Breaches

A practical book teaching the reader how to recognise, report and prevent personal data breaches, this title is written as a quick reference guide for the General Public, Non-Privacy and Data Protection Professionals, and for Law Students, Counsel, and Privacy and Data Protection Professionals from those just starting out, to long-standing ones and is a handy guide for Cyber/IT Security Professionals to help to bridge the divide.

Key issues considered include (but are not limited to):

• Bodycameras
• Keystroke logging
• Testing with Personal Data
• CCTV inappropriately shared with the Press
• Mobile Phone Data as Evidence
• Contamination of Evidence
• Prescription mix-ups and more...

Key cases considered within the book include

• Peck v. The United Kingdom in the European Court of Human Rights, (Application no. 44647/98)
• The Child of Mine Case
• Clearview AI (the ICO's Enforcement action)
• Kurbo Inc in the US District Court, Northern District California

The book will also be useful as supplementary reading for courses such as the CIPP/E and CIPM courses, for example, run by the IAPP.

Judith Ratcliffeis a Member of The Honourable Society Of The Inner Temple and was Called to the Bar in 2010. Although not a practising barrister and therefore unable to give legal advice, she is a Data Protection Officer and Conference Speaker with a background of over 10 years working with the overarching Privacy Laws and Rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 8) the Human Rights Act, 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, 2003 (and the e-Privacy Directive), as well as Data Protection Law, including the Data Protection Acts 1998 and 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU and UK) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, 2003 (and the e-Privacy Directive).