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Uber: a taxi service or an app? Analysis of a CJEU Advocate-General’s view

Uber: a taxi service or an app? Analysis of a CJEU Advocate-General’s view

May 23, 2017 | Surveillance

Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Information Law and Policy Centre, analyses the Opinion of the Advocate-General in a CJEU case concerning the status of Uber’s taxi services. The post...
Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK

Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK

May 17, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy, Surveillance

As our lives have increasingly become data-driven and digital by default, finding the balance between privacy and national security/law enforcement has become one of the central legal, political, and ethical debates of the information age. On 11 May, the Director of...
Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations

Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations

May 10, 2017 | Data Privacy, Surveillance

In the following post, Graham Smith, a member of the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Advisory Board, discusses the government’s consultation on the technical capability regulations in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. He highlights the increased scope...
Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations

UNESCO report: surveillance and data collection are putting journalists and sources at risk

May 3, 2017 | Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Journalism, News media, Privacy, Surveillance

In this guest post for World Press Freedom Day, Julie Posetti at the University of Wollongong, analyses how mass surveillance and data retention regimes are threatening journalists’ sources. Her new UNESCO report explores similar themes to the Information Law...
Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations

Where to after Watson: The challenges and future of data retention in the UK

Apr 11, 2017 | Access to information, Data Privacy, Government policy, Privacy, Surveillance

An event hosted by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and sponsored by Simmons & Simmons.  Date: 11th May 2017 Time: 17:30 – 19:30 (Registration open from 17:00). Followed by a reception Venue: Simmons & Simmons, City Point, 1 Ropemaker Street,...
Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations

Conference: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World

Feb 28, 2017 | Internet regulation, Surveillance

Cripps Court auditorium, Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge 31 March 2017, 09:00 – 18:15 Registration for this conference is now open, please register here. The full programme is available here. Full fee £20 (includes refreshments and lunch)...
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