AI and Data Governance
Two Research Associate Posts at Hertie School of Governance
For the project 'Evolving Internet Interfaces: Content Control and Privacy Protection' within the Deutsche Foschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) research group on 'Overlapping Spheres of Authority and Interface Conflicts in the Global Order'...
CFP: Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation
Kent Law School, in conjunction with the Eastern Academic Research Consortium, invites early career academics and postgraduate research students to participate in the “Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation” workshop to be held on 30th May, 2017....
Your next social network could pay you for posting
In this guest post, Jelena Dzakula from the London School of Economics and Political Science considers what blockchain technology might mean for the future of social networking. You may well have found this article through Facebook. An algorithm programmed by one of...
Book launch: ‘Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind The Gap’
Book launch at: The Conservatory, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DP 6pm – 8pm, 31 January 2017 This event is FREE but registration is required on Eventbrite. Speaker: Angela Daly With guest speakers: Professor Chris Marsden, University of...
Case Preview: PNM v Times Newspapers, Open justice and the privacy of suspects – Hugh Tomlinson QC
In this guest post, Hugh Tomlinson QC previews an appeal to the Supreme Court in a case that considers where the balance lies between rights to privacy and the principle of open justice. The post was first published on the Inforrm blog. On 17 and 18 January 2017, a...
Why the rise of wearable tech to monitor employees is worrying
Shutterstock.com In this guest post, Ivan Manokha, Departmental Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Oxford, considers the use of wearable technology in the workplace and the potential privacy implications of collecting the data of...
Call for Papers: Deadline 27/1: 4th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law
Date: Wednesday 3 May 2017 Venue: West Downs Campus, University of Winchester, Hampshire, UK Book Online at University of Winchester Events The Fourth Interdisciplinary Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law (#TRILCon17) will be held on...
How the UK passed the most invasive surveillance law in democratic history
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...
Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual workshop highlights new challenges in balancing competing human rights
Our annual workshop and lecture - held earlier this month - brought together a wide range of legal academics, lawyers, policy-makers and interested parties to discuss the future of human rights and digital information control. A number of key themes emerged in...
Open letter in the Daily Telegraph: Concerns with ‘information sharing’ provisions in the Digital Economy Bill
Associate research fellow at the Information Law and Policy Centre and lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex, Dr Judith Townend, is among the signatories of this letter published on the letters page of the Telegraph on 25/11/2016...