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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...
The Surveillance Triangle: Authorities, Data subjects and Means
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog may be interested in the following event held by Maastricht University. The academic conference addresses the question as to how surveillance is perceived from the perspective of three main stakeholders involved in...
The Legal Challenges of Social Media
How has the law adapted to the emergence and proliferation of social media tools and digital technology? Furthermore, how successful has the law been in governing the challenges associated with an ongoing reformulation of our understandings of public and private...
National Surveillance Camera Strategy – engaging the public
In this guest post, Professor William Webster outlines the objectives of the civil engagement strand of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy. He is the Director at the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP), Professor of Public...
ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section Workshop
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog may be interested in the following ECREA event. The Future of Media Content: Interventions and Industries in the Internet Era 15 – 16 September 2017 The “Communication Law and Policy” and “Media Industries and...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Guardian News and Media
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...