Jun 19, 2017 | Access to information, Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Government policy, Privacy
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
Jun 8, 2017 | Children, Data Privacy, Ethics, European Policy, Government policy, Internet regulation, Privacy
We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 17 November 2017 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal. You can read about our previous annual events here. We...
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 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...