Oct 1, 2020 | Data Privacy, ILPC Seminar Series
Date Thursday 15 Oct 2020, 10am – 11am Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Format Online Seminar (Zoom) Key Speaker: Dr Damian Clifford is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University, College of Law, a Research Fellow of the...
Sep 23, 2020 | Advertising, Data Privacy, Democracy, Journalism
In deciding what to write about for this post I was not short of topics and material. I could have talked about how the Court of Justice of the European Union has, in one fell swoop, caused a headache of Captain Jack Sparrow-hangover proportions (more on him in a...
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...
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 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Data Protection, ILPC Research and Publications, Privacy
Our director, Dr Nóra Ni Loideain, submitted written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights concerning the NHSX contact-tracing app, which is going to be rolled out by the UK government in order to reduce Covid-19 transmissions. The submission can be read...
