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Personal Data as an Asset: Design and Incentive Alignments in a Personal Data Economy
Registration open Date 19 Feb 2018, 17:30 to 19 Feb 2018, 19:30 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Venue Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Speaker: Professor Irene Ng, Director of the International Institute for...
AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society
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...
A Prediction about Predictions
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 also...
How websites watch your every move and ignore privacy settings
In this guest post, Yijun Yu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University examines the world’s top websites and their routine tracking of a user’s every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even if it's later...
2017 Annual Lecture: ‘Are Children more than Clickbait in the 21st Century?’
Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE, Film-maker, Member of The Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, and Founder of 5Rights;
Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion
In this guest post Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, provides an analysis on the new ECJ opinion . This post first appeared on the blog of Steve Peers, Professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex. Who...
Guilty until proven innocent? How a legal loophole is being used to name and shame children
In this guest post, Faith Gordon, University of Westminster explores how, under UK law, a child’s anonimity is not entirely guaranteed. Faith is speaking at the Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual...
Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin
In this guest post Dr Daniel R. Thomas, University of Cambridge reviews research surrounding ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin. This post first appeared on “Light Blue Touchpaper” weblog written by researchers in the Security Group at the...
Too much information? More than 80% of children have an online presence by the age of two
In this guest post, Claire Bessant, Northumbria University, Newcastle, looks into the phenomenon of 'sharenting'. Her article is relevant to the Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual conference coming up in November – Children and Digital Rights: Regulating...
Call for Papers: Trust, Risk, Information & the Law Conference
The 5th interdisciplinary Conference on Trust, Risk, Information & the Law will be held on 25 April 2018 at the Holiday Inn, Winchester UK. Our overall theme for this conference will be: "Public Law, Politics and the Constitution: A new battleground between the...