Apr 25, 2022 | Covid-19, Data Privacy
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...
Nov 16, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Fake news, Government policy, Health, ILPC Annual Lecture & Conference, Internet regulation, Open Justice, Rule of Law, Surveillance, Uncategorized
The Information Law & Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2021 will explore the impact of the global pandemic on society and the increased use of data-driven systems, particularly the implications of these changes for the rights and responsibilities of individuals...
Jul 31, 2020 | Covid-19, Ethics, Government policy, Health
The COVID-19 crisis triggered sweeping restrictions on civil liberties across society. Lockdowns have started to ease, but in response to concerns about a second wave of infections and coping with the virus in the...
Jul 16, 2020 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Health, Privacy
The global COVID-19 pandemic has focused minds sharply on the valuable role to be played by data collection and analysis for advancing health research, especially how it may help in informing and developing policy responses. Modern health research requires vast...
May 14, 2020 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Government policy, Privacy
Different groups of people have different experiences of COVID-19, but we don’t have the data to come up with a response that reflects that. Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images If one thing is clear by now from the coronavirus pandemic, it is that the disease does not affect...
May 7, 2020 | Children, Covid-19, Social Media, Uncategorized
Sonia Livingstone discusses the potential consequences of families’ reliance on technology during the COVID-19 crisis. She concludes that life under lockdown has the potential to either hasten a digital future in which our lives are tracked and monetised in...
