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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...
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...