Privacy & The Media - Key Issues in Privacy Law, Data Protection & Harassment

Introduction

This webinar provides an overview of the privacy landscape applicable to media investigations and reporting, covering key topics in privacy law, data protection and harassment law. It presents a number of practical examples taken from key case law, ICO guidance, and regulatory codes applicable to the print and broadcast media and covers a spectrum of pre-publication and post-publication journalistic activity (including covert investigations, source protection issues and post-publication legal and regulatory complaints).

This webinar also provides useful guidance to media organisations and journalists, as well as individuals and organisations who find themselves the subject of media reporting.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Overview of the legal landscape applicable to media activity - misuse of private information, breach of confidence, data protection, harassment
• Overview of regulatory guidance - ICO, IPSO, Ofcom
• Pre-publication - investigatory techniques including covert investigations and door-stepping, source protection issues
• Post-publication - publication of media reports, record-keeping, legal and regulatory complaints

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 4th June 2026

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