Author: David Erdos   In a little noticed or commented on proposal, the UK Government published draft Regulations last month which would remove the overarching right of data protection from UK law and limit fundamental rights or freedoms within UK data protection law (however and wherever expressed) to rights protected within the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as recognised by the Human Rights Act 1998. It is proposed that these Regulations will be made under the controversial Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) (REURR) Act 2023 which grants the Government sweeping powers ..read more

Dates: 23 November 2023; 9:30 – 17:00 (in-person) and 24 November 2023; 9:30 – 12:30 (online via Zoom) Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR The ILPC’s 8th Annual Conference will explore the impact of policymaking on systems concerning human-data interaction, automated and self-learning systems, including generative AI, that are increasingly used across society. Particularly the implications of these systems for the rights and responsibilities of individuals and organisations. All panels will address the development and future of the ..read more

The ILPC Seminar – Toward a Global Index for Measuring the State of Responsible AI took place on 6 September 2023.  The event kicked off with a Keynote Lecture by Dr Rachel Adams. Her lecture presented a new project underway to develop a Global Index on Responsible AI – a rights-based tool to support a broad range of actors in advancing responsible AI practices. It is intended to provide a comprehensive, reliable, independent, and comparative benchmark for assessing progress toward responsible AI around the world. Project Rationale Speaking about the rationale for the project, Dr Adams e ..read more

The ILPC is honoured to announce that  Robert Spano, former President of the European Court of Human Rights, will deliver the ILPC Annual Lecture 2023. Mr Spano is a Partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a tenured Professor of Law, University of Iceland. Mr Spano is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple and has published extensively in the areas of international dispute resolution, public international law, digital rights, and human rights law. During his time at the Strasbourg Court, he took ..read more

CALL FOR PAPERS ILPC Annual Conference 2023 – Human in the Machine: Digital Rights and AI We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 8th Annual Conference on 23-24 November 2023 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) and Bloomsbury’s Communications Law. You can read about our previous annual events here. We are looking for high quality contributions that explore the impact of policymaking on human-data interaction, automated and self-learning systems, inc ..read more

Authors: Tjaša Petročnik, Sofia Palmieri and Jean-Aymeric Marot   Over the past few months, general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a hot topic for policymakers. The ‘AI hype’ that followed the seemingly immediate success of the conversational bot ChatGPT has led to renewed calls for regulation in the EU, placing Large Language Models (LLMs) in the spotlight. Such models, which can be described as a subset of general-purpose AI that can process and generate human-like text, are increasingly being integrated into various industries. Healthcare is no exception, with pot ..read more

Author: Dr Peter Coe   On the 16th of February Impress, the Press Recognition Panel approved regulator of the UK press, launched its new Standards Code and Guidance (the new Code and Guidance will come into force on the 1st of April 2023). As a member of the Impress Code Committee I was involved in the review process and in drafting the revised Code. In this post I explain some of the reasons behind the new Code, and some of the key changes. Journalism has changed. One of the great things about the internet is that it has opened-up journalism to new non-traditional and non-institutional ..read more

Author: Marine Corhay   On 25 January 2023, the Council of the EU confirmed an agreement with the European Parliament has been reached on both the draft regulation and the draft directive on cross-border access to e-evidence. The first part of this article focused on the description of the instrument, as proposed by the Commission back in 2018, by explaining how it departs from traditional mutual recognition instruments and mutual legal assistance (MLA) agreements and highlighted some of the concerns raised by relevant stakeholders. This second part will discuss the role of service provi ..read more

Author: Marine Corhay   In November 2022, the Commission announced that a political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council had been reached to strengthen cross-border access to digital evidence. The announcement comes after more than four years of the Commission’s release of the e-evidence proposal in April 2018, and following intense discussions and debates (see here, here and here). To the EU institutions’ defence, the instrument is nothing short of revolutionary. It pursues the ambition to create an EU-wide legal framework for the collection of electronic evidence i ..read more

Author: Dr Peter Coe   On the 16th of February Impress, the Press Recognition Panel approved regulator of the UK press, launched its new Standards Code and Guidance (the new Code and Guidance will come into force on the 1st of April 2023). As a member of the Impress Code Committee I was involved in the review process and in drafting the revised Code. In this post I explain some of the reasons behind the new Code, and some of the key changes. Journalism has changed. One of the great things about the internet is that it has opened-up journalism to new non-traditional and non-institutional ..read more