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Two Cameras, Two Rules: Should Law Reform Cover Private Facial Recognition? –...
In December 2025, the Home Office opened a consultation on potential avenues for a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition, and similar technologies. The Home...
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Australia’s social media ban shows how extreme the technology debate has...
The recent decision by the Australian government to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s has been received with both praise and condemnation. Those who approve of the proposal tend to...
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Holding a placard outside court isn’t illegal, judge rules: is that the best...
The UK High Court recently dismissed the case against environmental activist Trudi Warner, who was referred for contempt of court in March 2023. Civil liberties campaigners hailed the decision as a...
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There are obvious problems with the SLAPPs Bill, but what should be done...
It took just two years for the idea of an anti-SLAPP statute to go from a grassroots movement in the UK to its realisation in legislation. There are obvious problems with the resulting anti-SLAPP...
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Ofcom has rules on broadcaster impartiality: so why is GB News getting away...
The UK’s media regulator has found GB News guilty of breaching the UK’s “due impartiality” code in five separate programmes. This brings the total violations for the news channel to 12 in the last 18...
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Starmer’s Refusal to Confront the Press Isn’t Just a Mistake: It’s...
In his new year speech, Keir Starmer held out his familiar vague promises of change after this year’s election and warned us that the Conservatives would go down fighting dirty, but he once again...
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United States: Supreme Court to consider giving First Amendment protections...
The First Amendment does not protect messages posted on social media platforms. The companies that own the platforms can – and do – remove, promote or limit the distribution of any posts according to...
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Digital policy in the UK and Europe after Brexit – Alison Harcourt
Post Brexit, the UK is attempting to redefine its place in the world of an increasingly globalised digital policy. My recent book on Brexit and the Digital Single Market examines the consequences of...
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The UK’s online safety law could make people less safe – Benjamin Dowling
The UK’s long-debated online safety bill (OSB) has been approved by the House of Lords, clearing the way for it to become law. But it has pitted the government, which proposed the bill, against tech...
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The Online Safety Bill: Everything in Moderation?, Parts III, IV and V,...
Part 3: Criticism In a rare show of national unity, disapproval of the OSB has spanned both ends of the political spectrum. Alongside criticism from the Labour culture minister, Conservative...
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The UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: Reviewing Proposed Law...
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, currently before the UK Parliament, proposes a slew of changes to UK data protection law, including law enforcement and intelligence services data...
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US politicians tweet far more misinformation than those in the UK and...
Politicians from mainstream parties in the UK and Germany post far fewer links to untrustworthy websites on Twitter and this has remained constant since 2016, according to our new research. By...
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The Devil in the Detail? The Government’s Response on SLAPPs and clause 4 of...
Just what exactly is the Government proposing in its recently published Response to the Call for Evidence on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)? As one commentator on this forum...
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Australia: Farm Transparency and New South Wales, What this High Court...
What do farm animals have to do with the Australian Constitution? Should the public know what happens in abattoirs and farms? Do we have the right to publish footage of what happens to animals in...
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What impact might the Bill of Rights Bill have on freedom of expression...
There are three clauses of the Bill of Rights Bill [pdf] which, if enacted in their current form, would have a direct impact on freedom of expression cases. These are clauses 4 (‘Freedom of speech’),...
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A SLAPP-up Meal for Journalists and a Dog’s Breakfast for the Rest: The...
Back in March, exercising rare concern for those exploited by the super-rich, the government issued an ‘urgent call for evidence’ that promised, based upon ‘third party and anecdotal evidence’ [42],...
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SLAPPs: Government Response to Call for Evidence, More Questions than Answers
On 20 July 2022 the Government published its response to the call for evidence on Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation [pdf] with a Foreword by Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab. This...
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Mainstreaming the Extreme: The British Media and Far Right Islamophobia –...
According to draft extracts of the Prevent review leaked to the Guardian, the government’s counter-terrorism programme has been too heavily focused on right-wing extremism and insufficiently concerned...
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Newspapers leap to defence of “extremists’ loophole” in the Online Safety...
Yesterday in the House of Commons the Government was skewered over its plans to allow extremists or dictators to set up front organisations in the UK and brand themselves “news publishers”, to benefit...
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Channel 4: why selling the broadcaster is a risky move for the UK government...
Channel 4 first flashed onto British TV screens under the watch of a Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher. Forty years later, in a move described by critics as “cultural vandalism”, the...
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