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ILPC Annual Conference 2025: Regulating AI in a Changing World – Oversight and Enforcement
Conference dates: 20 November (In-Person only) IALS Council Chamber 21 November (Online only) via Zoom Attendance (in person and online) will be free thanks to the support of our sponsors, although registration is required as places are limited. Topics to be covered:...
ILPC Annual Lecture 2025
The Information Law & Policy Centre is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Dr Brian Plastow, the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner, entitled: ‘Biometrics and policing: The benefits and risks of AI for law enforcement and...
Privacy and Crime: Financial Surveillance and Civil Liberties
Date: 16 September 2025, 5:30PM - 6:30PM Since the early 1990s, the global approach to financial privacy has changed beyond recognition. All our financial transactions, no matter how trivial or significant, are subject to surveillance by banks and other regulated...
Call for Papers: ILPC Annual Conference 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS ILPC Annual Conference 2025 Regulating AI in a Changing World: Oversight and Enforcement We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 10th Annual Conference on 20-21 November 2025 hosted by the Institute...
Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI
Date: 19 February 2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm Venue: Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Legislators in the United States and Europe are moving quickly to regulate artificial intelligence to minimize its risks to privacy,...
ILPC Annual Conference 2024 – AI and Power: Regulating Risk and Rights
Dates: 21 November 2024; 10:15 – 18:00 (in-person) and 22 November 2024; 9:00 – 13:00 (online via Zoom) Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR The ILPC’s 9th Annual Conference will explore the risk and rights-based approaches to...
Contempt of court, data protection and criminal records: the Law Commission’s consultation
Author: Law Commission contempt project team In July 2024 the Law Commission of England and Wales published a consultation paper that sets out provisional proposals for reform of the law of contempt. The Commission is seeking views on a number of data protection and...
ILPC Annual Lecture 2024
The ILPC is delighted to announce that world-leading scholar danah boyd will deliver the ILPC Annual Lecture 2024 entitled: 'Interventions Not Solutions in an Era of AI Policymaking' Abstract New widespread technologies are almost always disruptive. They rearrange...
Call for Papers: ILPC Annual Conference 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS ILPC Annual Conference 2024 - AI and Power: Regulating Risk and Rights We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 9th Annual Conference on 21-22 November 2024 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal...
Reformulating Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in UK Data Protection Law
Author: David Erdos In a little noticed or commented on proposal, the UK Government published draft Regulations last month which would remove the overarching right of data protection from UK law and limit fundamental rights or freedoms within UK data protection...