Feb 6, 2018 | Access to information, Fake news, Freedom of information, Government policy
In this guest post, Dan Lomas, Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford, explores the British government’s new ‘anti-fake news’ unit. The decision to set up a new National Security Communications Unit to counter...
Feb 6, 2018 | Children, Data Privacy, Ethics
The Information Law and Policy Centre held its third annual conference on 17th November 2017. The workshop’s theme was: ‘Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards’. The workshop brought together regulators, practitioners, civil society, and...
Jan 23, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy
This event will focus on the implications posed by the increasingly significant role of artificial intelligence (AI) in society and the possible ways in which humans will co-exist with AI in future, particularly the impact that this interaction will have on our...
Jan 16, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Ethics
In this guest post, Dr Vyacheslav Polonski, Researcher, University of Oxford examines the key question of trust or fear of AI. We are at a tipping point of a new digital divide. While some embrace AI, many people will always prefer human experts even when...
Dec 19, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
In this guest post, Marion Oswald offers her homage to Yes Minister and, in that tradition, smuggles in some pertinent observations on AI fears. This post first appeared on the SCL website’s Blog as part of Laurence Eastham’s Predictions 2018 series. It is...