Introduction
With all the talk of Covid-19 "vaccine passports" or
"certification schemes" recently, the Information
Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has sought to reassure the public
that data protection laws and her office, the ICO, will ensure that
people's personal data will be protected. Ms Denham says that
the ICO has already engaged with the Government on the issue and
stressed that, in order to ensure trust and confidence in any
certification scheme, the Government must make certain that,
"from the start, thought is given to how data can be used
fairly and how this can be explained clearly to people
...". In the courts, we report this week on Johnny
Depp's failed attempt to obtain permission to appeal the High
Court's finding of truth in his libel claim against publishers
of The Sun, and on the Court of Appeal's dismissal of
an appeal by online radio aggregation service, TuneIn, against the
High Court decision that its streaming service amounted to acts
