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14 J. Media L. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/joomaw14 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF MEDIA LAW 2022, VOL. 14, NO. 1, 1-10 https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2022.2089629 Routiedge Taylor & Francis Group Compensation for loss of control over personal data John Hartshorne Leicester Law School, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK ARTICLE HISTORY Received 29 April 2022; Accepted 9 June 2022 KEYWORDS Data Protection Act 1998; UK General Data Protection Regulation; Data Protection Act 2018; compensation for loss of control over personal data; misuse of private information Introduction There have been few decisions possessing as much potential to open the 'floodgates' of litigation as that of the Supreme Court in Lloyd v Google LLCI in November 2021. If the representative action in this case had been allowed to proceed, more than four million affected individuals would have been afforded the opportunity to seek damages from Google for a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998), exposing Google to a liability in the region of £3 billion. The case would also have acted as a pre- cedent in support of the commencement of similar representative mass data protection claims. This commentary considers the implications of the rejec- tion of the claim in Lloyd. It also explores some significant remarks made by Lord Leggatt JSC, delivering the unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court, concerning the tort of misuse of private information (MPI) and its relation- ship with actions under the DPA 1998. CONTACT John Hartshorne john.hartshorne@leicester.ac.uk '[2021] UKSC 50, [2021] 3 WLR 1268. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDer- ivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distri- bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.