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Call for Papers: ILPC Annual Conference 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS ILPC Annual Conference 2023 - Human in the Machine: Digital Rights and AI We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 8th Annual Conference on 23-24 November 2023 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal...

The AI Act and European Health Data Space Proposal: Seeing ‘AI to AI’ With Each Other?
Authors: Tjaša Petročnik, Sofia Palmieri and Jean-Aymeric Marot Over the past few months, general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a hot topic for policymakers. The ‘AI hype’ that followed the seemingly immediate success of the conversational...

Journalism has Changed: A New Standards Code for Modern Journalism
Author: Dr Peter Coe On the 16th of February Impress, the Press Recognition Panel approved regulator of the UK press, launched its new Standards Code and Guidance (the new Code and Guidance will come into force on the 1st of April 2023). As a member of the...

It is a Long Way to… E-Evidence: EU Reforms in the Collection of Electronic Evidence Part 2 – The Role of Service Providers
Author: Marine Corhay On 25 January 2023, the Council of the EU confirmed an agreement with the European Parliament has been reached on both the draft regulation and the draft directive on cross-border access to e-evidence. The first part of this article...

Policy Developments at the UN regarding the Safety of Journalists
Author: Dr Gemma Horton (University of Sheffield) Safety of Journalists In recent years, the threats that journalists face in their work have grown considerably. The development of technology has meant that journalists are subject to online violence for the...

Ensuring People Have a Say in Future Data Governance
Author: Gavin Freeguard This piece has been reposted from Connected by Data, with permission and thanks. On 5th December 2022, CONNECTED BY DATA organised an event in parliament, hosted and chaired by Lord Tim Clement-Jones, to explore three key areas around the...

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...