Bird & Bird Senior Associate Tom Moore wrote about the ramifications of the decision in Farley & Ors v. Paymaster, a case where the U.K. Court of Appeal determined there is no “threshold of seriousness” for data privacy claims under the General Data Protection Regulation. The case concerned whether former police officers’ information was misused when their pension benefit statements were sent to outdated addresses. Moore noted the decision could lead to more data breach claims, but “such claims still face significant hurdles, including the requirement to establish that the alleged ‘fear of an infringement’ is not purely hypothetical or speculative.”
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