AI and Data Governance
Upcoming seminar, 8 March 2016, Senate House: Surveillance and Human Rights
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2016 from 18:00 to 20:00 (GMT) Location: Room 246, 2nd Floor, Senate House, London Book your free place at this link This collaborative Seminar is organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the Information Law and Policy Centre of the...
Robin Callender Smith: Pictures of celebrities’ children now clearly off limits for media – unless parents consent
In this guest post, originally published on The Conversation UK, Professor Robin Callender Smith, Queen Mary University of London, considers the recent Court of Appeal decision in Weller v Associated Newspapers ([2015] EWCA Civ 1176) Pictures of bonny Prince George...
Eduardo Ustaran: Life after Safe Harbor – an action plan
In this piece that originally appeared in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, Eduardo Ustaran, partner at Hogan Lovells, considers the implications of the CJEU's recent decision in the Schrems case and sets out an action plan for companies previously reliant on Safe...
Lorna Woods: Safe Harbour – Key Aspects of the ECJ Ruling
On Tuesday (6 October) the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) declared that the Safe Harbour agreement that allows the movement of digital data between the EU and the US was invalid. The case was brought by Max Schrems, an Austrian student and privacy...
Lorna Woods: Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner – The beginning of the end for safe harbour?
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has delivered his non-binding legal opinion in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, a case brought by an Austrian citizen against the Irish Data Protection Commissioner concerning the transfer of Facebook data...
Eerke Boiten: Privacy watchdog takes first step against those undermining right to be forgotten
This guest post by Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, considers the implications of granting an individual the right to be de-listed from online search results: should new articles about de-listed content be removed too? The UK’s data privacy watchdog has waded into...
Resources from Data of our Lives: Global Privacy, Reputation and Freedom of Expression – with Frank LaRue
Videos and slides from the Information Law and Policy Centre's half-day discussion seminar on 25th June, supported by Article 19 and with special guest Frank LaRue, former UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, are now available: Video Frank LaRue, Executive...
Upcoming event at IALS, 25 September 2015, 2pm: Professor Bernd Holznagel on the Right to Be Forgotten: Removal Criteria and Procedures
In this afternoon seminar hosted by the Information Law and Policy Centre at IALS, Professor Bernd Holznagel, director of University of Münster’s Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law, will offer his perspective on the European Court of Justice’s...
William McCormick QC: What now for recoverability of Success Fees and ATE Premiums in ‘publication and privacy proceedings’?
In this guest post, which originally appeared on the Ely Place Chambers site, William McCormick QC looks at the implications of the recent Supreme Court decision in Coventry v Lawrence for the handling of costs in defamation and privacy cases. The much anticipated...
Upcoming event, 19 October 2015, 6.30pm: Whose Investigatory Power Is It Anyway? Security, Source Protection and Surveillance
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...