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The Legal Challenges of Social Media

The Legal Challenges of Social Media

Aug 9, 2017 | Ethics, Freedom of expression, Journalism, News media, Privacy, 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...
Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual workshop highlights new challenges in balancing competing human rights

Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual workshop highlights new challenges in balancing competing human rights

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...
“Right to be forgotten” requires anonymisation of online newspaper archive

“Right to be forgotten” requires anonymisation of online newspaper archive

Jul 26, 2016 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Privacy

In this post, Hugh Tomlinson QC discusses the implications of a ruling in the Belgian justice system for the application of the “right to be forgotten” for news organisations. Tomlinson is a member of Matrix Chambers and an editor of the Inforrm blog. The...
Is data protection the new defamation?

Is data protection the new defamation?

Jul 23, 2015 | ILPC Research and Publications, Privacy

“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...

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