May 10, 2017 | Data Privacy, Surveillance
In the following post, Graham Smith, a member of the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Advisory Board, discusses the government’s consultation on the technical capability regulations in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. He highlights the increased scope...
Feb 27, 2017 | Access to information, Freedom of expression, ILPC Research and Publications, Internet regulation, News media
By Judith Townend, University of Sussex and Richard Danbury, De Montfort University Donald Trump has declared war on anonymous sources and wants to ban their use by journalists. In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 24, he...
Nov 29, 2016 | Privacy, Surveillance
In this guest post, Paul Bernal, Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the University of East Anglia, reflects on the passage of the Investigatory Powers Bill. The legislation was recently passed in Parliament and given Royal...
Nov 29, 2016 | Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Internet regulation, Privacy
Our annual workshop and lecture – held earlier this month – brought together a wide range of legal academics, lawyers, policy-makers and interested parties to discuss the future of human rights and digital information control. A number of key themes...
