Law and Technology

Question 1

Rynes v Urad

Answer 1

• A Czech journalist installed a CCTV camera. A break-in suspect complained that Czech data protection law had been infringed.
• ECJ upheld the complaint and rejected householder’s argument that recording fell within the household exemption.

Question 2

Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis

Answer 2

• The police required a demonstrator to be photographed as a condition of leaving a ‘kettle’.
• The unexplained police action was a sufficient intrusion by the state into the individual’s own space and integrity to breach Article 8 ECHR.