Prince Harry won a legal dispute with Splash News, a photo agency which used a helicopter to take pictures inside his home.
As well as arguing that they invaded his privacy, the Duke of Sussex also based his case on the photographers having mishandled his personal data under Europe's new GDPR law.
Potentially even more interesting than that is the way in which he won his battle — basing a legal case partly on a sweeping new European data law that is less than a year old. But pursuing photographers on the grounds that their business constitutes illegal data processing is a new strategy, and a use of GDPR that few would have predicted.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle win 'substantial' payout after paparazzi agency took aerial photos of their home that were so invasive they had to move out
According to Article 5 of the law , companies are obliged to handle data"fairly and in a transparent manner," and also to use it for"legitimate purposes." Legal experts have previously said that data protection legislation could give public figures a different way to beat the media in court.wrote an article about GDPR in media law
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