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On Internet Intermediaries – from Defamation to Directive to Data Protection
In this guest post, Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen's University Belfast Daithí Mac Síthigh reviews the recent Information Law and Policy Centre seminar that explored Internet intermediaries and their legal role and obligations. Taking stock of recent...
Co-existing with HAL 9000: Being Human in a World with AI
This event took place at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Monday, 20 November 2017. Date 20 Nov 2017, 17:30 to 20 Nov 2017, 19:30 Venue Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR...
Call for Papers: Global Fake News and Defamation Symposium
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog are invited to submit a call for papers for the Global Fake News and Defamation Symposium on the theme of 'Fake News and Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives' Concept Note: The notion of “fake news” has...
Has Facebook finally given up chasing teenagers? It’s complicated
Facebook Watch. Facebook In this guest post, Harry T Dyer, University of East Anglia, looks into the complicated relationship between social media and young people. His article is relevant to the Information Law and Policy Centre's annual conference coming up in...
Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided
In this guest post, Dr Natalia Kucirkova, UCL and Professor Sonia Livingstone, (London School of Economics and Political Science), explore 'screen time' as an outdated term and why we need to recognise the power of learning through screen-based technologies. Their...
Social media genie won’t go back in the bottle, so we must teach youngsters to use it wisely
Beer5020/Shutterstock In this guest post, Vladlena Benson, Kingston University, assesses the need to encourage conscious social media use among the young. Her article is relevant to the Information Law and Policy Centre's annual conference coming up in November -...
Call for Papers: Financing and the Right to Science in Technology Transfer in the SDGs
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog are invited to participate in the second, full-day International Law for the Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the Department of International Law, University of Groningen, NL. Our aim with the second track...
Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2017 – Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
This event took place at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Friday, 17 November 2017. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017 RESOURCES https://twitter.com/ProfRaviBarn/status/931576164375810048...
Transferring personal data outside the EU: Clarification from the ECJ?
In this guest post Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, explores the EU's proposed Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement with Canada. This post first appeared on the blog of Steve Peers, Professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law...
Are we still ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ and if so, at what cost to children?
Marion Oswald Senior Fellow at The Centre for Information Rights, University of Winchester contributes to the blog, examining the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) consultation run by The Centre of Information Rights. The consultation...