May 31, 2017 | Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Internet regulation, Journalism, News media, Privacy
With the General Election fast-approaching, we have collected together a few blog posts from around the web that consider what the party manifestos say about information law and policy. The ICLR, General Election 2017: what the party manifestos say about law and...
May 30, 2017 | Access to information, Access to justice, Freedom of information, ILPC Research and Publications, News media, Privacy
Dr Judith Townend highlights the difficulties in accessing accurate data on privacy injunctions as part of a submission made on behalf of the Transparency Project to the Queen’s Bench ‘Media List’ consultation . Dr Townend is a Lecturer in Media and Information Law,...
May 24, 2017 | Government policy, Privacy
This event took place at the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Monday, 5 June 2017. Date: 5 June 2017 Time: 18:00 to 20:00 Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Book: Online on the...
May 24, 2017 | Data Privacy, Fairness
In this guest post, researchers from the Information Security Group at UCL – Steven J. Murdoch, Angela Sasse, Wendy M. Grossman and Simon Parkin – consider what lessons should be learnt after the WannaCry ransomware attack. As researchers who strive to...
May 22, 2017 | Access to justice, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Fairness, In court
Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock In this guest post, PhD researcher Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, explores the use of Artificial Intelligence in the justice system...
May 17, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy, Surveillance
As our lives have increasingly become data-driven and digital by default, finding the balance between privacy and national security/law enforcement has become one of the central legal, political, and ethical debates of the information age. On 11 May, the Director of...
