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Not So Grand: The Big Brother Watch ECtHR Grand Chamber judgment

Not So Grand: The Big Brother Watch ECtHR Grand Chamber judgment

May 28, 2021 | Uncategorized

Not So Grand: The Big Brother Watch ECtHR Grand Chamber judgment On 25 May 2021, the ECtHR Grand Chamber delivered two landmark judgments in Big Brother Watch v United Kingdom and Centrum för Rättvisa v Sweden, rulings which will shape the future ECHR legal order and...
The Legal Challenges of Social Media

The Legal Challenges of Social Media

Aug 9, 2017 | Ethics, Freedom of expression, Journalism, News media, Privacy, 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...
Exploring the challenges of the new transnational cyber policing

Exploring the challenges of the new transnational cyber policing

Jul 24, 2017 | Access to information, Fairness

The development of the Internet has facilitated global communications, new online spaces for the exchange of goods and information, new currencies and online marketplaces, and unprecedented access to information. These new possibilities in ‘cyberspace’ have been...
Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK

Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK

May 17, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy, Surveillance

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...
Reflections on ‘Freedom of Information’ at 250

Reflections on ‘Freedom of Information’ at 250

Feb 7, 2017 | Access to information, Ethics, Freedom of information, ILPC Research and Publications

In December 2016, the Information Law and Policy Centre co-organised an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the world’s first law providing a right to information. It was hosted by free expression NGO, Article 19 at the Free Word Centre and supported by the...
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