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New report: The impact of charity and tax law/regulation on not-for-profit news organizations
A new report on the impact of charity and and tax law/regulation on not-for-profit news organisations has been published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, and the Information Society Project at Yale University. It...
Update on Information Law and Policy Centre’s contribution to Investigatory Powers debate
As previously reported on this blog, our Information Law and Policy Centre (ILPC) at IALS has facilitated an ad hoc research group of academics and practitioners to contribute to the ongoing policy debate on surveillance following publication of the government’s Draft...
Some things old, some things new: A clause-by-clause review of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
Soon after the publication of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill in November, a number of privacy, surveillance and freedom of expression specialist academics and practitioners gathered at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to discuss the detail and the main...
Can resolving disputes online deliver better access to justice?
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is well known within the legal profession for his numerous books predicting a dramatic transformation in legal practice, and calling for an overhaul of 21st century lawyering. In February 2015 he made national headlines for his proposed...
Is data protection the new defamation?
"If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'" says Andrew Marr in My Trade (2005, p. 253). The answer to this post's headline, as I see it, is a bit uncertain. I ignored Betteridge's Law and used the same question as a title for a presentation at the...
Dear MPs: We need greater scrutiny of surveillance laws
This morning all 650 MPs received a letter from a group of 38 academics asking them to ensure that any changes in the law on surveillance, and especially any expansions of power, are fully and transparently vetted by Parliament, and open to consultation from the...
Open Letter to Google From 80 Internet Scholars: Release RTBF Compliance Data
I am among the signatories of a letter from 80 academics to Google, asking for more data and transparency on 'right to be forgotten' or de-listing decisions and policy, following the ECJ's judgment in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González in May last...
Judges are human too
In Ian McEwan's The Children Act published this year, the author deftly weaves together the personal and professional lives of a High Court Judge in the family division, the fictional Fiona Maye. His tale is rooted in the reality of law and judging: the judgments of...