Ethics and Transparency
Gendered AI and the role of data protection law
This post was written by Dr Nóra Ní Loideáin and Dr Rachel Adams and originally posted on talking humanities. The use of Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) in the home and workplace is rapidly increasing. However, until very recently, little attention has been paid to...
ILPC Annual Conference and Lecture 2018
Transforming Cities with AI: Law, Policy, and Ethics The ILPC’s Annual Conference and Lecture will take place on Friday 23rd November 2018, followed by an evening reception. Promises abound that technologies and systems using artificial intelligence (AI), like...
LSE Experts on T3: Omar Al-Ghazzi
This post is re-posted from the LSE Media Policy Project Blog. As part of a series of interviews with LSE Faculty on themes related to the Truth, Trust and Technology Commission, Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi talks to LSE MSc student Ariel Riera on ‘echo chambers’ in the context...
ILPC Annual Conference and Annual Lecture 2017 Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
For the special issue of the leading peer-review legal journal of Communications Law, published by Bloomsbury Publishers, with papers from the ILPC Annual Conference 2017, please see here. ILPC Annual Conference and Annual Lecture 2017 Children and Digital Rights:...
5th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law Wednesday 25 April 2018, Winchester, UK
5th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law Wednesday 25 April 2018, Holiday Inn, Winchester, UK Theme: Public Law, Politics and the Constitution: A new battleground between the Law and Technology? Keynote speakers will be Michael Barton, Chief...
Annual Conference 2017 Resources
The Information Law and Policy Centre held its third annual conference on 17th November 2017. The workshop’s theme was: ‘Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards’. The workshop brought together regulators, practitioners, civil society, and...
AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society
In this guest post, Dr Vyacheslav Polonski, Researcher, University of Oxford examines the key question of trust or fear of AI. We are at a tipping point of a new digital divide. While some embrace AI, many people will always prefer human experts even when...
2017 Annual Lecture: ‘Are Children more than Clickbait in the 21st Century?’
Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE, Film-maker, Member of The Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, and Founder of 5Rights;
Guilty until proven innocent? How a legal loophole is being used to name and shame children
In this guest post, Faith Gordon, University of Westminster explores how, under UK law, a child’s anonimity is not entirely guaranteed. Faith is speaking at the Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual...
Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin
In this guest post Dr Daniel R. Thomas, University of Cambridge reviews research surrounding ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin. This post first appeared on “Light Blue Touchpaper” weblog written by researchers in the Security Group at the...