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From Archive to Database: Reflections on the History of Laws Governing Access to Information
Date 25 Oct 2018, 17:00 to 25 Oct 2018, 19:30 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Type Seminar Venue Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description Expert Panel Discussion From Archive to Database: Reflections on...
Reform charity law to allow funding of public interest journalism
This blog post was written by Dr Judith Townend and originally published on The Conversation. Reactions to Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative MacTaggart lecture were predictably mixed. But amid proposals that attracted both acclaim and opprobrium in equal measure was one...
Carnegie UK Trust: A proposal for harm reduction in Social media – Lorna Woods
This blog post was written by Professor Lorna Woods and originally posted on Inforrm. Concern about the possible harmful effects of social media can now be seen in civil society, politics and the justice system not just in the UK but around the world. The remarkable...
Fixing Copyright Reform: How to Address Online Infringement and Bridge the Value Gap
In the following piece, Christina Angelopoulos (Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and Associate Research Fellow at the Information Law & Policy Centre) and João-Pedro Quintais (Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer,...
Richard Danbury: Cliff Richard and Private Investigations
This article was written by Richard Danbury and originally published on UKCLA. There is an old joke, in which a man is driving through the countryside, lost. He stops his car in a small village to ask a local for directions. The local responds by saying: ‘you want to...
Bethany Shiner: How Does the Data Protection Act 2018 Empower the Information Commissioner to Tackle the Misuse of Personal Data in Political Campaigns?
This article was written by Bethany Shiner and originally published on UKCLA. Introduction Following on from an earlier piece on this blog which highlighted some of the gaps in the legal framework relating to the use of personal data for political purposes in campaign...
“The Internet: To Regulate or Not To Regulate” – ILPC written evidence
The ILPC have submitted a piece of written evidence in response to the recent call for evidence on ‘The Internet: To Regulate or Not to Regulate’ from the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications. The written evidence outlines four key issues of internet...
ILPC Annual Conference and Lecture 2018
Transforming Cities with AI: Law, Policy, and Ethics The ILPC’s Annual Conference and Lecture will take place on Friday 23rd November 2018, followed by an evening reception. Promises abound that technologies and systems using artificial intelligence (AI), like...
ILPC Seminar: EU Report on Fake News and Online Disinformation, 30th April 2018
The term “fake news” has become a prominent nomenclature in public discourse. Indeed, the idea of “fake news” has brought to the fore a number of key concerns of modern global society, including if and how social media platforms should be regulated, and more...
Money, law and courage: the varied roles of the UK Information Commissioner
This post is re-posted from the ICO's website with kind permission. Original web entry available here. Original script may differ from delivered version Elizabeth Denham delivered the CRISP (Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy) annual...