Freedom of Expression and Internet Regulation
The Legal Challenges of Social Media
How has the law adapted to the emergence and proliferation of social media tools and digital technology? Furthermore, how successful has the law been in governing the challenges associated with an ongoing reformulation of our understandings of public and private...
ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section Workshop
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog may be interested in the following ECREA event. The Future of Media Content: Interventions and Industries in the Internet Era 15 – 16 September 2017 The “Communication Law and Policy” and “Media Industries and...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Guardian News and Media
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
No, the internet is not actually stealing kids’ innocence
In this guest post, Professor Sonia Livingstone, (London School of Economics and Political Science), assesses the evidence behind claims in the media that the internet is harming children and young people. Her article is relevant to the Information Law and Policy...
Exploring the challenges of the new transnational cyber policing
The development of the Internet has facilitated global communications, new online spaces for the exchange of goods and information, new currencies and online marketplaces, and unprecedented access to information. These new possibilities in ‘cyberspace’ have been...
CJEU Decision on Ziggo: The Pirate Bay Communicates Works to the Public
In the following piece, Christina Angelopoulos, Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and Associate Research Fellow at the Information Law & Policy Centre, analyses the recent decision of the CJEU in case C-610/15, Stichting Brein v...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Global Witness
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
Any reform to the law on Official Secrets must provide robust protection for public interest disclosures and open justice
Lorna Woods, Lawrence McNamara and Judith Townend - affiliated members of the Information Law and Policy Centre - comment on the Law Commission's proposals to reform 'Protection of Official Data'. This blog post accompanies their submission to the Law Commission's...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: Lorna Woods, Lawrence McNamara and Judith Townend
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...
Submissions to the Law Commission’s consultation on ‘Official Data Protection’: The Open Government Network
The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an...