Jun 29, 2016 | Access to information, Data Privacy, Ethics, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Government policy, Journalism, News media, Privacy
Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals, research assistant at the Information Law and Policy Centre, reports on a research workshop hosted by the University of Cardiff on Digital Citizenship and the ‘Surveillance Society’. A workshop led by researchers at the Cardiff School of...
Jun 2, 2016 | Access to information, Fairness, In court, Uncategorized
The Supreme Court welcomes and informs the public, but how does an artist interpret the coded theatre of the hearings? Isobel William’s new exhibition of drawings, sketched from the public seats of the Supreme Court with the court’s permission, and other...
Jun 1, 2016 | Access to information, Freedom of information
The Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice is a new open access, peer reviewed online journal launched in April. The journal aims to encourage interdisciplinary debate of current information rights issues from a variety of policy, practitioner and academic...
May 19, 2016 | Access to information, Copyright, News media
On the 3rd November 2015, a workshop was held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London, to discuss potential legal responses to threats to the production of news in a digital environment. Particular attention was paid to copyright. The workshop was...
Apr 28, 2016 | Fairness, Freedom of information, Government policy, Privacy
On Wednesday 27 April the government’s preferred candidate for the new Information Commissioner appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, whose remit now extends to this post. Video here. The CMS committee has now published its report,...
Apr 13, 2016 | Access to information, Fairness, ILPC Research and Publications, Journalism
An update on developments in digital court reporting by the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Judith Townend How should courts be reported in the digital age? It’s a question that’s been preoccupying me for a number of years. My understanding of the...
