AI and Data Governance
Whistleblowers and journalists in the digital age
Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals, research assistant at the Information Law and Policy Centre, reports on a research workshop hosted by the University of Cardiff on Digital Citizenship and the ‘Surveillance Society’. A workshop led by researchers at the Cardiff School of...
What is the impact of Brexit on data protection and the GDPR?
A consensus already appears to be emerging among legal commentators that many UK organisations will need to comply with the provisions of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation regardless of the progress of the UK’s path to Brexit. The GDPR was due to...
Brendan Van Alsenoy: I tweet therefore I am … subject to data protection law?
In this guest blog post, Brendan Van Alsenoy - legal researcher at the Centre for IT and IP Law, University of Leuven - analyses the scope of the personal use exemption under the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A note with regard to the relevance of...
Upcoming Event: 3D Printing in Law and Society
The Information Law and Policy Centre at IALS is pleased to announce the following lecture and book launch: Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2016, from 18:00 to 19:00 Location: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London Speaker: Dr Angela Daly,...
Lorna Woods: An overview of the Investigatory Powers Bill report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights
In this post, Professor Lorna Woods, University of Essex and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, considers a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Investigatory Powers Bill. The Joint Committee has reported on...
News: CMS committee approves Elizabeth Denham’s appointment as Information Commissioner
On Wednesday 27 April the government's preferred candidate for the new Information Commissioner appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, whose remit now extends to this post. Video here. The CMS committee has now published its report,...
Notice-and-Fair-Balance: the Law of Fundamental Rights in European Intermediary Liability
On 11 April 2016, Christina Angelopoulos of the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Stijn Smet of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University gave a presentation at the BILETA Conference (which took place this year at the...
CJEU AG suggests that free Wi-Fi providers may not be ordered to password protect their networks
Christina Angelopoulos is a post-doc researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the University of London. She wrote her PhD on intermediary liability in copyright at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. In the following...
Update on Information Law and Policy Centre’s contribution to Investigatory Powers debate
As previously reported on this blog, our Information Law and Policy Centre (ILPC) at IALS has facilitated an ad hoc research group of academics and practitioners to contribute to the ongoing policy debate on surveillance following publication of the government’s Draft...
David Goldberg: Dronalism in the Year of the Drone
Dr David Goldberg is a member of the Advisory Board of the Information Law and Policy Centre. He has recently authored the following: [1] ”Journalism, drones, and law” in A. Koltay (ed), Comparative Perspectives on the Fundamental Freedom of Expression (Wolters Kluwer...