Aug 15, 2017 | Privacy, Surveillance
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...
Jun 8, 2017 | Access to information, Data Privacy, Freedom of information
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...
Jun 8, 2017 | Children, Data Privacy, Ethics, European Policy, Government policy, Internet regulation, Privacy
We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 17 November 2017 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal. You can read about our previous annual events here. We...
May 24, 2017 | Data Privacy, Fairness
In this guest post, researchers from the Information Security Group at UCL – Steven J. Murdoch, Angela Sasse, Wendy M. Grossman and Simon Parkin – consider what lessons should be learnt after the WannaCry ransomware attack. As researchers who strive to...
May 17, 2017 | Data Privacy, Privacy, Surveillance
As our lives have increasingly become data-driven and digital by default, finding the balance between privacy and national security/law enforcement has become one of the central legal, political, and ethical debates of the information age. On 11 May, the Director of...
