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Event: Joining The Circle: capturing the zeitgeist of ‘Big Tech’ companies, social media speech and privacy
Event: Joining The Circle: capturing the zeitgeist of ‘Big Tech’ companies, social media speech and privacy Professor Robin Barnes (Global Institute of Freedom and Awareness) and Peter Coe (Aston University) have organised a panel session at the Inner Temple,...
New approach to media cases at the Royal Courts of Justice is a welcome development
Guest post by Dr Judith Townend. This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in Communications Law journal, volume 23, issue 1 (Bloomsbury Professional) and PA Media Lawyer. In 2012 Mr Justice Tugendhat, ahead of his retirement in 2014, made a plea...
LSE Experts on T3: Omar Al-Ghazzi
This post is re-posted from the LSE Media Policy Project Blog. As part of a series of interviews with LSE Faculty on themes related to the Truth, Trust and Technology Commission, Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi talks to LSE MSc student Ariel Riera on ‘echo chambers’ in the context...
Recent developments on freedom of expression, Dr David Goldberg
This post brings us some recent developments on freedom expression from Dr David Goldberg, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, and member of the Information...
ILPC Annual Conference and Annual Lecture 2017 Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
For the special issue of the leading peer-review legal journal of Communications Law, published by Bloomsbury Publishers, with papers from the ILPC Annual Conference 2017, please see here. ILPC Annual Conference and Annual Lecture 2017 Children and Digital Rights:...
5th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law Wednesday 25 April 2018, Winchester, UK
5th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law Wednesday 25 April 2018, Holiday Inn, Winchester, UK Theme: Public Law, Politics and the Constitution: A new battleground between the Law and Technology? Keynote speakers will be Michael Barton, Chief...
British government’s new ‘anti-fake news’ unit has been tried before – and it got out of hand
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 the growth of...
Annual Conference 2017 Resources
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...
Co-existing with HAL 9000: Being Human in a World with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJ93wyluS8 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...
Emotion detection, personalisation and autonomous decision-making online
This event took place at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Monday, 5 February 2018. https://twitter.com/jennifercobbe/status/960596661042057216 https://twitter.com/EdinaRl/status/960572620071727108 Date 05 Feb 2018,...