Jun 20, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Police Technology, Surveillance
Author: Dr Marion Oswald Last week, Rt Hon. Lord Geidt resigned as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, citing – as the straw that broke the camel’s back – a still rather opaque issue relating to international law, putting him ‘in an...
Feb 6, 2018 | Access to information, Fake news, Freedom of information, Government policy
In this guest post, Dan Lomas, Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford, explores the British government’s new ‘anti-fake news’ unit. The decision to set up a new National Security Communications Unit to counter...
Nov 30, 2017 | Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance
In this guest post, Yijun Yu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University examines the world’s top websites and their routine tracking of a user’s every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even if it’s later...
Aug 15, 2017 | Privacy, Surveillance
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog may be interested in the following event held by Maastricht University. The academic conference addresses the question as to how surveillance is perceived from the perspective of three main stakeholders involved in...
Aug 9, 2017 | Privacy, Surveillance
In this guest post, Professor William Webster outlines the objectives of the civil engagement strand of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy. He is the Director at the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP), Professor of Public...
