Oct 27, 2023 | Data Protection
Author: David Erdos In a little noticed or commented on proposal, the UK Government published draft Regulations last month which would remove the overarching right of data protection from UK law and limit fundamental rights or freedoms within UK data protection...
Jun 20, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Police Technology, Surveillance
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...
Feb 6, 2018 | Children, Data Privacy, Ethics
The Information Law and Policy Centre held its third annual conference on 17th November 2017. The workshop’s theme was: ‘Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards’. The workshop brought together regulators, practitioners, civil society, and...
Nov 30, 2017 | Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance
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...
Nov 28, 2017 | European Policy, Freedom of expression, Internet regulation, Social Media
In this guest post Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, provides an analysis on the new ECJ opinion . This post first appeared on the blog of Steve Peers, Professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex. Who...
