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Data crossing borders: Data Sharing and Protection in Times of Coronavirus – Christopher Kuner
Dr. Christopher Kuner is professor of law and co-director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, a research centre at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium. He is also an associate of the Centre for European Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, and...
ILPC Online Research Seminar – The ‘policy spiral’ of Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes
Title The ‘policy spiral’ of Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes Date 7th May 2020, 12.30pm - 2pm Event type Online seminar Event Description Media narratives and political considerations are driving police forces in the UK and in a number of Commonwealth countries to...
Covid-19, the UK’s Coronavirus Act and emergency ‘remote’ court hearings: what does it mean for open justice? – Dr Judith Townend
There will be an increasing use of ‘remote hearings’ in the courts in England and Wales in coming weeks and months, under existing law, and under new provisions in the emergency Coronavirus Act, agreed by the House of Lords last Wednesday (25 March). But there are...
Call for Papers – AI and the Rule of Law: Regulation and Ethics
Call for Papers We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 20 November 2020 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal. You can read about our previous annual...
Is the UK Government Undermining the BBC? – Richard Danbury
I live in a Victorian London terraced house. It was built in the late 19th century, and the records indicate it was built by a speculative builder who cut corners. The floorboards are thinner than my neighbours, and mortar between the bricks more crumbly, and the...
The European Data Protection Board’s Draft Guidelines for Search Engines and the Future of the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Online, Part 2 – David Erdos
This is the second part of a post dealing with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)’s draft guidelines on the right to be forgotten. Part (1) dealt with the scope of the guidance and of ex post rights vis-à-vis search engines. This...
The European Data Protection Board’s Draft Guidelines for Search Engines and the Future of the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Online, Part 1 – David Erdos
Securing workable, balanced and effective individual rights regarding personal data disseminated online is vital to the future of data protection and should be a significant focus of attention for the European Data Protection Board going forward. Consequent...
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Facial Recognition Technology and the Police – Peter Coe
Just over a year ago, as a practitioner, I was involved in a number of conversations with clients and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) relating to the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). These conversations tended to be on behalf of clients...
Spotlight: Information Law and Policy Centre Annual Lecture and Conference 2019
Last year, we held our Annual Lecture and Conference ‘Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges’, bringing together an eclectic mix of experts, academics and civil society. A plethora of pertinent topics relating to digital rights post-Brexit were explored,...
A legal proposal for data protection in self-driving cars – Maria Cristina Gaeta
This post is extracted from the article published in Communications Law Journal in 2019, written by Maria Cristina Gaeta, Research Fellow at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, Ph.D in People, Business and Market Law at University of Naples Federico II....