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On Internet Intermediaries – from Defamation to Directive to Data Protection

On Internet Intermediaries – from Defamation to Directive to Data Protection

Oct 10, 2017 | Data Privacy, Government policy, Internet regulation

In this guest post,  Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast Daithí Mac Síthigh reviews the recent Information Law and Policy Centre seminar that explored Internet intermediaries and their legal role and obligations. Taking stock of recent...
Uber: a taxi service or an app? Analysis of a CJEU Advocate-General’s view

Uber: a taxi service or an app? Analysis of a CJEU Advocate-General’s view

May 23, 2017 | Surveillance

Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Information Law and Policy Centre, analyses the Opinion of the Advocate-General in a CJEU case concerning the status of Uber’s taxi services. The post...
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...
Analysing the Advocate General’s opinion on data retention and EU law

Analysing the Advocate General’s opinion on data retention and EU law

Jul 27, 2016 | Data Privacy, Fairness, Privacy, Surveillance, Uncategorized

Last week, the Advocate General published an opinion on a case brought to the European Court of Justice concerning the compatibility of the UK and Sweden’s data retention laws with EU law. In a detailed analysis, Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the...
On Internet Intermediaries – from Defamation to Directive to Data Protection

Lorna Woods: An overview of the Investigatory Powers Bill report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights

Jun 10, 2016 | Government policy, Privacy, Surveillance

In this post, Professor Lorna Woods, University of Essex and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, considers a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Investigatory Powers Bill. The Joint Committee has reported on...
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