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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,...
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;