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Information Law and Policy Centre Annual Lecture and Workshop
An afternoon workshop and evening lecture to be given by leading information and data protection lawyer Rosemary Jay. Restricted and Redacted: Where now for human rights and digital information control? The Information Law and Policy Centre is delighted to announce...
Information as an Asset: the business benefits of preserving records for providers of legal services
The second Legal Records at Risk seminar will be held in the IALS Conference Room, 23 November 2016, 2-5.30 pm. Background The 2004 Clementi report: Review of the regulatory framework for legal services in England and Wales suggested that it was time for the providers...
Applications open…Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Law & Director: Information Law and Policy Centre
As readers of this blog might already be aware our first Director, Dr Judith Townend, has moved on to a new post at the University of Sussex. This means the Information Law and Policy Centre is now looking for a new Director... "The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies...
Data Retention and the Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) System: A Gap in the Oversight Regime
The Advocate General’s Opinion in the recent Watson/Tele2 case re-emphasises the importance of considered justification for the collection and storage of personal data which has implications for a variety of data retention regimes. In this post, Lorna Woods, Professor...
Update from the Information Law and Policy Centre
A reflection on what we've achieved to date, and a preview of what lies ahead for 2016/17 It is now 18 months since the official launch of the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. As the Centre’s first director, Dr Judith...
Brexit: “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”
In the following editorial, Professor Lilian Edwards considers the implications of the Brexit vote for information law and assesses the mood amongst the academic community in the aftermath of the EU Referendum. The article was first published in Volume 13, Issue 2 of...
C-494/15 – Tommy Hilfiger: No Difference between Online and Real World Marketplaces for IP Enforcement
In the following piece, Christina Angelopoulos, post-doc researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the University of London, analyses the recent judgment of the CJEU in case C-494/15 Tommy Hilfiger. The post was originally published on the Kluwer...
Pokémon Go has revealed a new battleground for virtual privacy
Andres Guadamuz, University of Sussex People have been lingering outside Boon Sheridan’s house all through the night. The designer lives in an old church in Massachusetts that has been designated a “gym” in the new smartphone game Pokémon Go. Because the game requires...
Analysing the Advocate General’s opinion on data retention and EU law
Last week, the Advocate General published an opinion on a case brought to the European Court of Justice concerning the compatibility of the UK and Sweden's data retention laws with EU law. In a detailed analysis, Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the...
“Right to be forgotten” requires anonymisation of online newspaper archive
In this post, Hugh Tomlinson QC discusses the implications of a ruling in the Belgian justice system for the application of the "right to be forgotten" for news organisations. Tomlinson is a member of Matrix Chambers and an editor of the Inforrm blog. The post was...