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Information Law and Policy in the General Election Manifestos

Information Law and Policy in the General Election Manifestos

May 31, 2017 | Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Internet regulation, Journalism, News media, Privacy

With the General Election fast-approaching, we have collected together a few blog posts from around the web that consider what the party manifestos say about information law and policy. The ICLR, General Election 2017: what the party manifestos say about law and...
Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK

Where to after Watson? The challenges and future of mass data retention in the UK

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...
Information Law and Policy in the General Election Manifestos

Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations

May 10, 2017 | Data Privacy, Surveillance

In the following post, Graham Smith, a member of the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Advisory Board, discusses the government’s consultation on the technical capability regulations in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. He highlights the increased scope...
Information Law and Policy in the General Election Manifestos

UNESCO report: surveillance and data collection are putting journalists and sources at risk

May 3, 2017 | Data Privacy, Freedom of information, Journalism, News media, Privacy, Surveillance

In this guest post for World Press Freedom Day, Julie Posetti at the University of Wollongong, analyses how mass surveillance and data retention regimes are threatening journalists’ sources. Her new UNESCO report explores similar themes to the Information Law...
ILPC launches new report: ‘Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age’

ILPC launches new report: ‘Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age’

Feb 22, 2017 | Fairness, Freedom of expression, Government policy, ILPC Research and Publications, Journalism, News media

The emergence of an everyday digital culture and the increasing use of legal instruments by state actors to collect and access communications data has led to growing concern about the protection of journalistic sources and whistleblowers. With the support of Guardian...
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