M, R (on the application of) v The Chief Constable of Sussex Police & Anor [2019] EWHC 975 (Admin) (15 April 2019)

Judgment on lawfulness of sharing of sensitive personal data relating to a 16 year old child, including bail conditions, under an information-sharing agreement between the police and a local business crime reduction partnership.  The decision also determined that the parties to the agreement were joint controllers of the data, rather than controller and processor respectively, and held that the defendant had implemented ‘appropriate technical and organisational measures’ by using a secure intranet, which was encrypted and password protected. See here.

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