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Turing Lecture: Regulating Unreality (Deepfakes, revenge-pornography & fake news) – Professor Lilian Edwards

Turing Lecture: Regulating Unreality (Deepfakes, revenge-pornography & fake news) – Professor Lilian Edwards

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...
Mind the Gap: a blueprint for a new regulatory framework that effectively captures citizen journalists

Mind the Gap: a blueprint for a new regulatory framework that effectively captures citizen journalists

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...
Reform charity law to allow funding of public interest journalism

Reform charity law to allow funding of public interest journalism

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...
Richard Danbury: Cliff Richard and Private Investigations

Richard Danbury: Cliff Richard and Private Investigations

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...
ILPC Seminar: EU Report on Fake News and Online Disinformation, 30th April 2018

ILPC Seminar: EU Report on Fake News and Online Disinformation, 30th April 2018

May 9, 2018 | Fake news

  The term “fake news” has become a prominent nomenclature in public discourse. Indeed, the idea of “fake news” has brought to the fore a number of key concerns of modern global society, including if and how social media platforms should be regulated, and more...
New approach to media cases at the Royal Courts of Justice is a welcome development

New approach to media cases at the Royal Courts of Justice is a welcome development

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...
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