Feb 6, 2018 | Children, Data Privacy, Ethics
The Information Law and Policy Centre held its third annual conference on 17th November 2017. The workshop’s theme was: ‘Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards’. The workshop brought together regulators, practitioners, civil society, and...
Jan 16, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Ethics
In this guest post, Dr Vyacheslav Polonski, Researcher, University of Oxford examines the key question of trust or fear of AI. We are at a tipping point of a new digital divide. While some embrace AI, many people will always prefer human experts even when...
Dec 19, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
In this guest post, Marion Oswald offers her homage to Yes Minister and, in that tradition, smuggles in some pertinent observations on AI fears. This post first appeared on the SCL website’s Blog as part of Laurence Eastham’s Predictions 2018 series. It is...
Nov 28, 2017 | European Policy, Freedom of expression, Internet regulation, Social Media
In this guest post Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, provides an analysis on the new ECJ opinion . This post first appeared on the blog of Steve Peers, Professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex. Who...
Oct 25, 2017 | Children, Ethics
In this guest post, Claire Bessant, Northumbria University, Newcastle, looks into the phenomenon of ‘sharenting’. Her article is relevant to the Information Law and Policy Centre’s annual conference coming up in November – Children and Digital Rights:...