Jun 29, 2016 | Access to information, Data Privacy, Ethics, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Government policy, Journalism, News media, Privacy
Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals, research assistant at the Information Law and Policy Centre, reports on a research workshop hosted by the University of Cardiff on Digital Citizenship and the ‘Surveillance Society’. A workshop led by researchers at the Cardiff School of...
Apr 28, 2016 | Fairness, Freedom of information, Government policy, Privacy
On Wednesday 27 April the government’s preferred candidate for the new Information Commissioner appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, whose remit now extends to this post. Video here. The CMS committee has now published its report,...
Dec 9, 2015 | Access to information, Government policy
In this guest post, Transparency International UK’s Steve Goodrich considers UK citizens’ right to access information, arguing that public money should be put towards examining how the Freedom of Information regime can be improved, not weakened The right...
Nov 6, 2015 | Access to information
This post originally appeared on Dr Ben Worthy’s blog, OpenDataStudy. It is based on his contribution to an event on 28th September 2015 co-presented by the Information Law and Policy Centre and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and hosted by Baker and...