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CJEU Ruling on Website Storage of IP Addresses

The Court of Justice of the European Union appears to have ruled that the operator of a website may have a legitimate interest in storing certain personal data relating to visitors to that website in order to protect itself against cyberattacks. It considers though that the dynamic internet protocol address of a visitor constitutes personal data, with respect to the operator of the website, if that operator has the legal means allowing it to identify the visitor concerned with additional information about him which is held by the internet access provider…

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Blocking Injunctions and Trade Marks: Court of Appeal Cartier Judgment

In  Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 658 five English ISPs (Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin) were appealing against orders made in late 2014 which required them to block or attempt to block access by their customers to certain target websites which were advertising and selling counterfeit copies…

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Cases Catch-up

This is a selection of cases that have been covered on the SCL website but have not been dealt with elsewhere in this issue or previous issues. Fuller coverage and links to full judgments are available on the SCL website as are reports of a handful of other 2016 cases which we have not found space to cover in print…

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Protecting Privacy Online: GDPR and e-Privacy Directive Revisited

Agnieszka Jablonowska considers the role of data in the digital economy, focusing on the input from the BEUC, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on the review of the e-Privacy Directive…

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