In this episode, Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox review the recent UK Court of Appeals’ decision in the Morrisons’ case. This decision stretched the limits of vicarious liability for a corporation to the absolute breaking point and has significant implications in the broader data privacy-data protection space.
Jonathan and Tom discuss the legal theories, underlying facts and what it all may mean.
Some of the issues and highlights are:
- The case is instructive for how to conduct business under GDPR on data privacy.
- If a file is too large to email, it presents a higher data protection risk and must managed accordingly.
- Should you do risk assessments on individual employees around data privacy-data protection?
- How can vicarious liability exist for ultra vires conduct by an employee?
- How do you properly scope an investigation to ascertain an individual’s mind-set?
- A company must require its vendors to exercise appropriate data protection and control.
- Will Morrisons apply to the UK Supreme Court for relief?
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