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It is a Long Way to … E-Evidence: EU Reforms in the Collection of Electronic Evidence – Part 1
Author: Marine Corhay In November 2022, the Commission announced that a political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council had been reached to strengthen cross-border access to digital evidence. The announcement comes after more than four years...
ILPC Annual Conference 2022 – Online Safety in Connected World
Dates: 17 November 2022; 9:30 - 17:00 (in-person) and 18 November 2022; 9:00 - 13:00 (online) Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR The Information Law & Policy Centre’s 7th Annual Conference 2022 will explore...
Government Control Over the Flow of Information: Lord Sumption Speaks Out Against the Online Safety Bill in the Latest Episode of Law Pod UK
Author: Rosalind English The Online Safety Bill is currently making its way through the House of Commons, having reached the report stage in July. The bill’s concept of “legal but harmful” is controversial, and has attracted criticism from high places, not...
Regulating Online Safety: Lessons from Australia
Author: Dr Rys Farthing Seven years ago, Australia passed its first online safety bill, the Enhancing Online Safety Act, updating and expanding it in 2021 with the Online Safety Act. While both Acts have problems and pitfalls, these were ‘global firsts’ at...
RightCon 2022 – Reflections by Jeni Tennison
RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants around the world to convene, connect, and contribute to a shared agenda for the future. It enables business leaders, activists,...
Lord Geidt and the Wild West of Policing Technology Governance: How can a resignation improve police technology oversight?
Author: Dr Marion Oswald Last week, Rt Hon. Lord Geidt resigned as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, citing - as the straw that broke the camel’s back - a still rather opaque issue relating to international law, putting him ‘in an impossible and...
Event Review: Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism Book Launch.
The ILPC Book Launch Event – Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism (Elgar Law 2021) took place on 11th May. The ILPC was delighted to host this online event and congratulates former ILPC Research Associate Dr Peter Coe (University of Reading) on its...
Call for Papers: ILPC Annual Conference 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS ILPC Annual Conference 2022 - Online Safety in a Connected World We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 7th Annual Conference on 17-18 November 2022 hosted by the Institute of Advanced...
How to Improve Contact Tracing Apps for Future Public Health Crises – Lessons learned from the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author: Melis Mevsimler - Ada Lovelace Institute As the first pandemic of the algorithmic age, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to the use of data and artificial intelligence for public health. Governments across the globe saw potential...
ILPC Annual Lecture 2022
Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE will deliver this year’s ILPC Annual Lecture on Thursday 17 November 2022 entitled: “Children’s rights in the digital environment: Challenges in implementing UN Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment 25.” Sonia...