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...
May 3, 2017 | Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Journalism, News media, Privacy, Surveillance
In this guest post for World Press Freedom Day, Julie Posetti at the University of Wollongong, analyses how mass surveillance and data retention regimes are threatening journalists’ sources. Her new UNESCO report explores similar themes to the Information Law...
Apr 11, 2017 | Access to information, Data Privacy, Government policy, Privacy, Surveillance
An event hosted by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and sponsored by Simmons & Simmons. Date: 11th May 2017 Time: 17:30 – 19:30 (Registration open from 17:00). Followed by a reception Venue: Simmons & Simmons, City Point, 1 Ropemaker Street,...
Apr 2, 2017 | Copyright, European Policy, Freedom of expression, Intellectual property and Copyright, Internet regulation, Privacy
Dr Christina Angelopoulos, associate research fellow at the Information Law & Policy Centre and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, has authored a study entitled ‘On Online Platforms and the Commission’s New Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the...
Mar 27, 2017 | Data Privacy, ILPC Research and Publications, Internet regulation, Privacy
The Information Law and Policy Centre is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Communications Law journal based on papers submitted for our annual workshop last November. The journal articles are available via direct subscription, through...
Mar 27, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Privacy
In this guest post, David Erdos, University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society, University of Cambridge, considers the 2016 Resolution made by the Spanish Data Protection Authority in relation to Google’s approach to de-listing personal information. The Court...
