AI and Data Governance
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Liberty
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...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: The Courage Foundation
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...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: CFOI and Article 19
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...
Call for Papers – Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 17 November 2017 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal. You can read about our previous annual events here. We...
Information Law and Policy in the General Election Manifestos
With the General Election fast-approaching, we have collected together a few blog posts from around the web that consider what the party manifestos say about information law and policy. The ICLR, General Election 2017: what the party manifestos say about law and...
Where did all the privacy injunctions go? A response to the Queen’s Bench ‘Media List’ consultation
Dr Judith Townend highlights the difficulties in accessing accurate data on privacy injunctions as part of a submission made on behalf of the Transparency Project to the Queen’s Bench ‘Media List’ consultation . Dr Townend is a Lecturer in Media and Information Law,...
Event: Responding to the WannaCry Attack: The Future of UK Cybersecurity Policymaking
This event took place at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Monday, 5 June 2017. Date: 5 June 2017 Time: 18:00 to 20:00 Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Book: Online on the...
Observing the WannaCry fallout: confusing advice and playing the blame game
In this guest post, researchers from the Information Security Group at UCL - Steven J. Murdoch, Angela Sasse, Wendy M. Grossman and Simon Parkin - consider what lessons should be learnt after the WannaCry ransomware attack. As researchers who strive to develop...
Why using AI to sentence criminals is a dangerous idea
Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock In this guest post, PhD researcher Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, explores the use of Artificial Intelligence in the justice system...
Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK
As our lives have increasingly become data-driven and digital by default, finding the balance between privacy and national security/law enforcement has become one of the central legal, political, and ethical debates of the information age. On 11 May, the Director of...