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...
Mar 14, 2017 | Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Journalism, News media
In this guest post, journalist and Africa analyst Martin Plaut, calls on the Commonwealth to take a more robust view on new threats to journalistic independence. Do they challenge democracy and human rights as much as freedom of speech? The Commonwealth has a problem:...
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...
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...
Mar 7, 2016 | Internet regulation
Christina Angelopoulos is a post-doc researcher at the Information Law and Policy Centre of the University of London. She wrote her PhD on intermediary liability in copyright at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. In the following...
