Ethics and Transparency
Call for Papers – Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 17 November 2017 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal. You can read about our previous annual events here. We...
Call for Papers: Automated decision-making, machine learning and artificial intelligence
Information Rights, Policy & Practice, a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal for academics and practitioners alike, is seeking submissions for its Autumn 2017 special issue on automated decision-making, machine learning and artificial...
Reflections on ‘Freedom of Information’ at 250
In December 2016, the Information Law and Policy Centre co-organised an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the world’s first law providing a right to information. It was hosted by free expression NGO, Article 19 at the Free Word Centre and supported by the...
Why the rise of wearable tech to monitor employees is worrying
Shutterstock.com In this guest post, Ivan Manokha, Departmental Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Oxford, considers the use of wearable technology in the workplace and the potential privacy implications of collecting the data of...
Call for Papers: Deadline 27/1: 4th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law
Date: Wednesday 3 May 2017 Venue: West Downs Campus, University of Winchester, Hampshire, UK Book Online at University of Winchester Events The Fourth Interdisciplinary Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law (#TRILCon17) will be held on...
Freedom of Information at 250: now on Storify
Last week, Article 19 held the 'Freedom of Information at 250' event at the Free Word Centre. The aim of the event was to commemorate, celebrate and scrutinise the adoption of the first freedom of information law in Sweden and Finland in 1766. Participants also...
Open letter in the Daily Telegraph: Concerns with ‘information sharing’ provisions in the Digital Economy Bill
Associate research fellow at the Information Law and Policy Centre and lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex, Dr Judith Townend, is among the signatories of this letter published on the letters page of the Telegraph on 25/11/2016...
Access to information should not be an after-thought in plans for ‘transforming our justice system’
In this post, Sussex University lecturer Judith Townend argues that access to information should be at the heart of plans to reform the justice system. She summarises the key points from her submission to the Ministry of Justice in response to the consultation on the...
Article 19 event: 250 years of freedom of information
On 2 December 1766, the world’s first-ever freedom of information law was signed into law. It had been promulgated by the Riksdag – Parliament – of Sweden and Finland, which at the time was one country. The 1766 Law is the oldest constitution to regulate freedom of...
‘Tracking People’ research network established
A new research network has been established to investigate the legal, ethical, social and technical issues which arise from the use of wearable, non-removable tagging and tracking devices. According to the network's website, tracking devices are increasingly being...