AI and Data Governance
Philip Murphy: Obsessive secrecy impedes an informed discussion about the UK monarchy
In this post, originally published on The Conversation UK, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History at School of Advanced Study, Philip Murphy, reflects on the Royal Family's secretive handling of its records...
Is data protection the new defamation?
"If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'" says Andrew Marr in My Trade (2005, p. 253). The answer to this post's headline, as I see it, is a bit uncertain. I ignored Betteridge's Law and used the same question as a title for a presentation at the...
Lorna Woods: The ruling that overturned DRIPA
Last week the English High Court ruled that surveillance legislation enacted in 2014 was unlawful, in David Davis and others -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2092 (Admin). In this post, which first appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project...
Upcoming event, 11 June – Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Societal Implications and Issues
Dr David Goldberg, Advisory Board member of the Centre for Law and Information Policy, is co-organising an event on Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on 11th June 2015. The workshop will address a selection of social/societal...
Dear MPs: We need greater scrutiny of surveillance laws
This morning all 650 MPs received a letter from a group of 38 academics asking them to ensure that any changes in the law on surveillance, and especially any expansions of power, are fully and transparently vetted by Parliament, and open to consultation from the...
Open Letter to Google From 80 Internet Scholars: Release RTBF Compliance Data
I am among the signatories of a letter from 80 academics to Google, asking for more data and transparency on 'right to be forgotten' or de-listing decisions and policy, following the ECJ's judgment in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González in May last...
SLS Media and Communications: Call For Papers
The deadline for papers for the Media and Communications section at this year’s annual Society of Legal Scholars conference (University of York, 1st-4th September 2015) has been extended to 31st March 2015 24th April 2015. Here is the Call for Papers, prepared by...
Marion Oswald: Controlling, lying and blocking – ways for the individual to win the privacy arms race?
This is a version of Marion Oswald’s speech at the launch of the Centre for Law and Information Policy at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 24 February 2015. It previously appeared on the SCL website. Controlling, lying and blocking - could these activities...
Upcoming event, 20 January 2015: Data Protection Act 1984, Freedom of Information Act 2000 – 30 and 15 years on
James Michael, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and chair of the Centre for Law and Information Policy Advisory Board, will discuss data protection and Freedom of Information past and present in his annual lecture on 20 January...