Jul 23, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Fake news, Privacy
‘Deepfakes’ or the use of AI to convincingly simulate or synthesise voice, images or video for malicious purposes have become prominent recently, most obviously as a means to create realistic but fake revenge-pornography involving celebrities and members of the public...
Dec 18, 2018 | Internet regulation, Journalism
Date 28 Feb 2019, 17:00 to 18:45 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Type Seminar Venue Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Mind the Gap: a blueprint for a new regulatory framework that...
Oct 2, 2018 | Internet regulation, Journalism
This blog post was written by Dr Judith Townend and originally published on The Conversation. Reactions to Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative MacTaggart lecture were predictably mixed. But amid proposals that attracted both acclaim and opprobrium in equal measure was one...
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...
Apr 9, 2018 | ILPC Research and Publications, Internet regulation, News media
Guest post by Dr Judith Townend. This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in Communications Law journal, volume 23, issue 1 (Bloomsbury Professional) and PA Media Lawyer. In 2012 Mr Justice Tugendhat, ahead of his retirement in 2014, made a plea...
