May 17, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy, Surveillance
As our lives have increasingly become data-driven and digital by default, finding the balance between privacy and national security/law enforcement has become one of the central legal, political, and ethical debates of the information age. On 11 May, the Director of...
Mar 1, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy
A group of 50 organisations and nearly 90 individual experts have signed a statement against the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposal to ask non-citizens to provide the passwords to their social media accounts in order to enter the United States....
Nov 29, 2016 | Privacy, Surveillance
In this guest post, Paul Bernal, Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the University of East Anglia, reflects on the passage of the Investigatory Powers Bill. The legislation was recently passed in Parliament and given Royal...
Aug 6, 2015 | Government policy, News media, Privacy
The Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, in collaboration with the Media Society, is pleased to announce this exciting panel event, featuring Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK, Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP, Former...