Surveillance and Investigatory Powers
Lord Geidt and the Wild West of Policing Technology Governance: How can a resignation improve police technology oversight?
Author: Dr Marion Oswald Last week, Rt Hon. Lord Geidt resigned as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, citing - as the straw that broke the camel’s back - a still rather opaque issue relating to international law, putting him ‘in an impossible and...
ILPC Annual Conference 2021 – Data in a Pandemic: Rights and Responsibilities
The Information Law & Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2021 will explore the impact of the global pandemic on society and the increased use of data-driven systems, particularly the implications of these changes for the rights and responsibilities of individuals...
A Brave New Working World or something more sinister? Employer surveillance of employees working at home – Peter Coe
Employers monitoring their employees is not a new issue. Indeed, I have written about the surveillance of employees in the workplace, and their right to privacy pursuant to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in a previous Inforrm post in the context...
Should companies based in authoritarian countries be permitted to invest in sensitive areas of another country’s economy?
This post was originally written by Anthony Wenton, Researcher at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and published on SC Magazine. 5G technology promises to be truly revolutionary. Not only will it make data-intensive communications virtually instantaneous, but it...
Call for Papers – Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges
Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 22nd November 2019 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications...
The debate on automatic facial recognition continues
This post was originally written by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Tony Porter, and published on the Surveillance Camera Commissioner blog. Once again the issue of police use of Automatic Facial Recognition (AFR) technology has come into public spotlight. This...
ILPC Annual Conference and Lecture 2018 Transforming Cities with AI: Law, Policy, and Ethics
The ILPC’s Annual Conference and Lecture for 2018, Transforming Cities with AI: Law, Policy, and Ethics took place on Friday, 23 November, 9.30am–5.30pm, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR. For the full conference...
House of Lords AI Report: Policy Impact, Implementation, and Progress
Date 06 Dec 2018, 17:30 to 06 Dec 2018, 19:00 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Type Seminar Venue Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Description Expert Panel Discussion Recordings for this event are available here. The...
How websites watch your every move and ignore privacy settings
In this guest post, Yijun Yu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University examines the world’s top websites and their routine tracking of a user’s every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even if it's later...
The Surveillance Triangle: Authorities, Data subjects and Means
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog may be interested in the following event held by Maastricht University. The academic conference addresses the question as to how surveillance is perceived from the perspective of three main stakeholders involved in...