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Surveillance and civil liberties: Interview with David Davis MP
Yesterday’s publication of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill marks an important moment in the ongoing debate about surveillance powers in the UK. The former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis MP is a...
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Finding Proportionality in Surveillance Laws
Andrew Murray is Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science and the author of Information Technology Law: The Law and Society. In this post, he examines the Draft...
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Following the publication of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill in November 2015, the Investigatory Powers Research Group – which comprises academics and practitioners specialising in privacy,...
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The LSE Law Department Contributes to the Surveillance Debate
The draft Investigatory Powers Bill received considerable attention when it was published in late 2015. In this blog, Professor Andrew Murray from LSE’s Law Department, introduces a series of new LSE...
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A very brief history of interception
Britain is in the process of legislating a new system of control over the interception of communication. The Investigatory Powers Bill, currently being debated in draft form, aims to give an...
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Predictive Policing and the Automated Suppression of Dissent
Following a special workshop convened by the Media Policy Project on ‘Automation, Prediction and Digital Inequalities’, Lina Dencik, Lecturer in the School of Media, Journalism and Cultural Studies at...
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Automation, Correlation and Causation: Launching a Policy Discussion
Following a special workshop convened by the Media Policy Project on ‘Automation, Prediction and Digital Inequalities’, Tal Zarsky, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, discusses some of the...
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Big data analytics: Q&A with Professor Oscar H. Gandy, Jr
Professor Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., is Emeritus Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Following a public lecture at LSE titled ‘Surveillance and the Public Sphere:...
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How the UK passed the most invasive surveillance law in democratic history
The Investigatory Powers Bill was recently passed by both Houses of the UK parliament and is set to become law, likely by the end of the year. Paul Bernal, Lecturer in Information Technology,...
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Into the Darkness: How illegal surveillance is undermining open government...
In Latin America, the increasing scale of illegal surveillance – enabled by governments’ purchases of surveillance and hacking software – is raising urgent questions about its impact on civil rights....
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