Mar 1, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy
A group of 50 organisations and nearly 90 individual experts have signed a statement against the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposal to ask non-citizens to provide the passwords to their social media accounts in order to enter the United States....
Feb 14, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Privacy
Kent Law School, in conjunction with the Eastern Academic Research Consortium, invites early career academics and postgraduate research students to participate in the “Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation” workshop to be held on 30th May, 2017....
Jan 31, 2017 | Data Privacy, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Internet regulation, Privacy
In this guest post, Jelena Dzakula from the London School of Economics and Political Science considers what blockchain technology might mean for the future of social networking. You may well have found this article through Facebook. An algorithm programmed by one of...
Jan 16, 2017 | In court, Open Justice, Privacy
In this guest post, Hugh Tomlinson QC previews an appeal to the Supreme Court in a case that considers where the balance lies between rights to privacy and the principle of open justice. The post was first published on the Inforrm blog. On 17 and 18 January 2017, a...
Jan 11, 2017 | Ethics, Privacy
Shutterstock.com In this guest post, Ivan Manokha, Departmental Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Oxford, considers the use of wearable technology in the workplace and the potential privacy implications of collecting the data of...
