Oct 14, 2024 | Data Protection
Author: Law Commission contempt project team In July 2024 the Law Commission of England and Wales published a consultation paper that sets out provisional proposals for reform of the law of contempt. The Commission is seeking views on a number of data protection and...
Oct 27, 2023 | Data Protection
Author: David Erdos In a little noticed or commented on proposal, the UK Government published draft Regulations last month which would remove the overarching right of data protection from UK law and limit fundamental rights or freedoms within UK data protection...
Jun 15, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Protection, Health
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...
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 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...
Jun 25, 2020 | Data Privacy, Data Protection, European Policy, GDPR
Anniversaries always offer an opportunity for reflective evaluation and the very recent second anniversary of the EU General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) entry into force is no exception. How far has the GDPR gone in becoming a ‘global standard for privacy and...
