Jul 23, 2015 | ILPC Research and Publications, Privacy
“If the headline asks a question, try answering ‘no'” says Andrew Marr in My Trade (2005, p. 253). The answer to this post’s headline, as I see it, is a bit uncertain. I ignored Betteridge’s Law and used the same question as a title for a...
May 26, 2015 | Government policy, ILPC Research and Publications, Privacy
This morning all 650 MPs received a letter from a group of 38 academics asking them to ensure that any changes in the law on surveillance, and especially any expansions of power, are fully and transparently vetted by Parliament, and open to consultation from the...
May 15, 2015 | ILPC Research and Publications, News media, Privacy
I am among the signatories of a letter from 80 academics to Google, asking for more data and transparency on ‘right to be forgotten’ or de-listing decisions and policy, following the ECJ’s judgment in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja...
Nov 21, 2014 | ILPC Research and Publications, Uncategorized
In Ian McEwan’s The Children Act published this year, the author deftly weaves together the personal and professional lives of a High Court Judge in the family division, the fictional Fiona Maye. His tale is rooted in the reality of law and judging: the...
