# Celebrities, the Media and the Personal Data Privacy Wars

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr Robin Callender Smith
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Law
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/celebrities-media-and-personal-data-privacy-wars)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) should properly have been called the Data Privacy Act: it is about privacy of personal data and not merely its security. Recent cases - if successful for the claimants - will change the litigation landscape for everyone. The protection of personal data is, as a result, the fast-maturing celebrity privacy remedy of choice.

## Lectures

1. [Celebrities, the Media and the Personal Data Privacy Wars](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/celebrities-media-and-personal-data-privacy-wars/8fbfafc278ab) (YouTube)