So you think you own your electronic data, do you?
Friday, 18 July 2014, 3:25 pm Press Release: Chapman Tripp
So you think you own your electronic data, do you?
Think again
A consensus has emerged from
the Courts of Appeal in New Zealand and the UK that digital
data is not property for the purposes of the law.
The two
courts used different reasoning but arrived at the same
conclusion. This issue is important because it runs to the
protection and remedies available to an innocent party
against misuse of electronic data.
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