UK: Supreme Court president: UK privacy law “may have to be reconsidered” due to rise of social media

From Out-Law.com:

The pace of technological change and rise of social media “may make it inevitable” that UK privacy laws need to be revised and updated, the country’s most senior judge has said.

In a speech at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club (9-page / 157KB PDF), Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger said that “astonishing developments” in technology had created “enormous challenges for people involved in the law and people involved in the media”.

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