Oct 26, 2018 | Access to information, Freedom of information, Uncategorized
The following piece is taken from Dr Richard Danbury’s presentation at the ILPC’s Seminar From Archives to Database: Reflections on the History of Laws Governing Access to Information, held on 25th October 2018. I have been asked to revisit the idea and political...
Oct 12, 2018 | Access to information, Freedom of information, Uncategorized
Date 25 Oct 2018, 17:00 to 25 Oct 2018, 19:30 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Type Seminar Venue Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description Expert Panel Discussion From Archive to Database: Reflections on...
Jul 27, 2018 | Freedom of information, Journalism, News media
This article was written by Richard Danbury and originally published on UKCLA. There is an old joke, in which a man is driving through the countryside, lost. He stops his car in a small village to ask a local for directions. The local responds by saying: ‘you want to...
Mar 16, 2018 | Fake news, Freedom of information
This post brings us some recent developments on freedom expression from Dr David Goldberg, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, and member of the Information...
Mar 12, 2018 | Access to information, Ethics
5th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law Wednesday 25 April 2018, Holiday Inn, Winchester, UK Theme: Public Law, Politics and the Constitution: A new battleground between the Law and Technology? Keynote speakers will be Michael Barton, Chief...
Feb 6, 2018 | Access to information, Fake news, Freedom of information, Government policy
In this guest post, Dan Lomas, Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford, explores the British government’s new ‘anti-fake news’ unit. The decision to set up a new National Security Communications Unit to counter...
