AI and Data Governance
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Facial Recognition Technology and the Police – Peter Coe
Just over a year ago, as a practitioner, I was involved in a number of conversations with clients and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) relating to the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). These conversations tended to be on behalf of clients...
A legal proposal for data protection in self-driving cars – Maria Cristina Gaeta
This post is extracted from the article published in Communications Law Journal in 2019, written by Maria Cristina Gaeta, Research Fellow at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, Ph.D in People, Business and Market Law at University of Naples Federico II....
HDI, the Internet of Things, System Design, and the Law: Workshop and Funding Call
Workshop: 5 February 2020 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London We are pleased to announce this workshop and funding call for the UK EPSRC Network Plus Human Data Interaction (HDI) Project taking place on the 5th February 2020 at the Institute of...
ILPC Evening Seminar: Benefits and Challenges of Health Data Sharing
Date: Thursday 5th December 2019Institute:Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Time:5.30pm - 7pm Book here.Speakers:Dr Edward Dove (Lecturer in Health Law and Regulation, School of Law, University of Edinburgh) Dr Ciara Staunton...
Podcast: Media coverage concerning children charged with crime – Dr Faith Gordon
Reposted from Mojo News. Dr Faith Gordon, the Director of the Interdisciplinary International Youth Justice Network, shares her thoughts on naming and shaming children charged with crime. She reviews the case of UK toddler James Bulger's killers, Robert Thompson and...
Lifelong anonymity orders: do they still work in the social media age? – Faith Gordon and Julie Doughty
This article was originally published on The Conversation, written by Dr Faith Gordon, Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University and Dr Julie Doughty, Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University. Lifelong anonymity orders for adults who were convicted of crimes as children...
Data and privacy in the digital age: from evidence to policy
This post was originally written by Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications and Gianfranco Polizzi, PhD researcher at LSE, for the LSE Media Policy Project Blog. We live in a society increasingly based on the...
BA’s record fine could help make the public take data security more seriously
This article was originally published on The Conversation, written by John McAlaney, Associate Professor in Psychology, Bournemouth University. British Airways (BA) has received a record fine of £183m after details of around 500,000 of its customers were stolen in a...
Turing Lecture: Regulating Unreality (Deepfakes, revenge-pornography & fake news) – Professor Lilian Edwards
‘Deepfakes’ or the use of AI to convincingly simulate or synthesise voice, images or video for malicious purposes have become prominent recently, most obviously as a means to create realistic but fake revenge-pornography involving celebrities and members of the public...
El Pais interview with Dr Rachel Adams
In this interview, Dr Rachel Adams discusses the numbers gap for women in technology, the problematic gendering of VPAs and advises on ways to tackle the issue. Interview and photo used was originally published on El Pais. Why do VPA’s have female voices and female...