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Marion Oswald: Controlling, lying and blocking – ways for the individual to win the privacy arms race?
This is a version of Marion Oswald’s speech at the launch of the Centre for Law and Information Policy at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 24 February 2015. It previously appeared on the SCL website. Controlling, lying and blocking - could these activities...
New information law and policy centre officially launched!
On 24th February 2015 we officially launched the new Centre for Law and Information Policy at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies with an academic workshop on 'information flows and dams', featuring a range of leading scholars in the field, and an evening lecture...
A new Centre for Law and Information Policy at the IALS
This post originally appeared in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Image: Robert S. Donovan, Flickr. Data are – or is – everything and everywhere, flowing through everyday life, our workplaces, our homes and our minds. Social, political and legal activity is...
Data protection and privacy dates for the diary
Yesterday I posted the details of our launch on 24th February 2015 and here are a few other dates which should be of interest to researchers and practitioners in information law and policy in the UK. 'Balancing Business Innovation with Data Protection? Regulating the...
Upcoming event, 24 February 2015: Launch of the IALS Centre for Law and Information Policy
We had something of a 'soft' launch of the Centre for Law and Information Policy this week, with a lecture by James Michael, Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. His title was 'Data Protection Act 1984, Freedom of Information...
Upcoming event, 20 January 2015: Data Protection Act 1984, Freedom of Information Act 2000 – 30 and 15 years on
James Michael, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and chair of the Centre for Law and Information Policy Advisory Board, will discuss data protection and Freedom of Information past and present in his annual lecture on 20 January...
Drawing from the public seats at the Supreme Court: ‘I see paintings and human beings’
Last week I was fortunate to attend a private view of Isobel Williams' drawings from the UK Supreme Court, which are currently on display at Pinsent Masons LLP, near Liverpool Street. Followers of Williams' work will know that she shares an alternative view from...
Can copyright save news? And should it?
In this guest post Dr Richard Danbury, research associate, University of Cambridge, looks at news business models, and asks ‘Do we need legal interventions to facilitate the production of news?’ I’m not supposed to be in the blame game, but it’s always been at the...
The challenge of obtaining DNA evidence: exchanges between EU member states and fundamental rights protection
This guest post by Joaquín Sarrión Esteve, Assistant Professor, University of Valencia and IALS Visiting Fellow, discusses legal issues around biometric data, based on a seminar presentation in November 2014. Biometric data represent particular challenges in the...
Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review goes open access
The journal Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review has made the transition to an open access and an online-only format for its latest edition. Articles in Volume 11: 2014 cover electronic evidence and electronic signature issues in several...