AI and Data Governance
Call for Papers: Financing and the Right to Science in Technology Transfer in the SDGs
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog are invited to participate in the second, full-day International Law for the Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the Department of International Law, University of Groningen, NL. Our aim with the second track...
Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2017 – Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
This event took place at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Friday, 17 November 2017. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017 RESOURCES https://twitter.com/ProfRaviBarn/status/931576164375810048...
Transferring personal data outside the EU: Clarification from the ECJ?
In this guest post Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, explores the EU's proposed Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement with Canada. This post first appeared on the blog of Steve Peers, Professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law...
Are we still ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ and if so, at what cost to children?
Marion Oswald Senior Fellow at The Centre for Information Rights, University of Winchester contributes to the blog, examining the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) consultation run by The Centre of Information Rights. The consultation...
The Surveillance Triangle: Authorities, Data subjects and Means
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog may be interested in the following event held by Maastricht University. The academic conference addresses the question as to how surveillance is perceived from the perspective of three main stakeholders involved in...
The Legal Challenges of Social Media
How has the law adapted to the emergence and proliferation of social media tools and digital technology? Furthermore, how successful has the law been in governing the challenges associated with an ongoing reformulation of our understandings of public and private...
National Surveillance Camera Strategy – engaging the public
In this guest post, Professor William Webster outlines the objectives of the civil engagement strand of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy. He is the Director at the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP), Professor of Public...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: British Computer Society
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
Creating International Frameworks for Data Protection: New Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action
In this guest post, Dr Christopher Kuner and Massimo Marelli highlight the publication of the new ICRC/Brussels Privacy Hub handbook on data protection in humanitarian action. Christopher Kuner is professor of law and co-director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, Vrije...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Global Witness
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...