Nov 16, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Fake news, Government policy, Health, ILPC Annual Lecture & Conference, Internet regulation, Open Justice, Rule of Law, Surveillance, Uncategorized
The Information Law & Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2021 will explore the impact of the global pandemic on society and the increased use of data-driven systems, particularly the implications of these changes for the rights and responsibilities of individuals...
Jul 31, 2020 | Covid-19, Ethics, Government policy, Health
The COVID-19 crisis triggered sweeping restrictions on civil liberties across society. Lockdowns have started to ease, but in response to concerns about a second wave of infections and coping with the virus in the...
May 14, 2020 | Covid-19, Data Privacy, Government policy, Privacy
Different groups of people have different experiences of COVID-19, but we don’t have the data to come up with a response that reflects that. Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images If one thing is clear by now from the coronavirus pandemic, it is that the disease does not affect...
Jul 19, 2019 | Government policy, Internet regulation, Social Media
This post was originally written by Dr Damian Tambini, Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, for the LSE Media Policy Project Blog. It has been an extraordinarily busy year in UK tech policy. The Furman Review reported on digital...
Jun 27, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Government policy, ILPC Research and Publications
We are pleased to share the above working paper by our Director, Dr Nora Ni Loideain and Early Career Researcher, Dr Rachel Adams, which explores the social harms that emanate from the problematic gendering of Virtual Personal Assistants and the role of the...
Jun 20, 2019 | Data Privacy, Government policy, Surveillance
This post was originally written by Anthony Wenton, Researcher at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and published on SC Magazine. 5G technology promises to be truly revolutionary. Not only will it make data-intensive communications virtually instantaneous, but it...