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Using the business impact of COVID19 as justification for reducing compensation

PatrickSmithUS · 2020-11-03 19:11:40

After the two settlements for GDPR breaches were reduced in the UK, for Marriott and BA, after taking the economic impact of the recession into account, I was wondering if the same is likely to happen in relation to compensation claims here. The BA wasn't a surprise given that it was a British company so it may have been…

03-11-2020 7:11pm

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PatrickSmithUS

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After the two settlements for GDPR breaches were reduced in the UK, for Marriott and BA, after taking the economic impact of the recession into account, I was wondering if the same is likely to happen in relation to compensation claims here.

The BA wasn't a surprise given that it was a British company so it may have been counter productive, plus BREXIT is 'almost complete.

However, I was wondering if there's a chance that claims for any injury picked up during the pandemic will be scaled down as a result of it.

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