Expert opinions on Data Privacy

The Codes of Practice for Online Safety require designated Social Media Services, including X, and designated app stores, to have in place measures to minimise users’ exposure to harmful content, especially for children. This includes having in place...

Age verification can be done well in a privacy-protective way, but it is not easy.

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

In human rights terms, there is no salient difference between real-time and post-remote biometric identification. Threats posed to rights and freedoms are not reduced just because authorities or companies have extra time to review footage.

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

AI systems that pose a threat to people’s safety, rights or livelihoods are banned from use in the EU. These include cognitive behavioural manipulation, predictive policing, emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions, and socia...

Officers across England and Wales will spend less time behind desks and more time protecting their communities, as the government today launches PoliceAI – a new national centre dedicated to the responsible development, piloting and scaling of artifi...

By allowing rightsholders to opt out, the mechanisms must remain technically viable.

Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.

For years we’ve been stuck with intrusive cookie banners, a clumsy solution that frustrates users and offers little real control. Now, the EU’s Digital Omnibus Regulation proposal, though disappointingly slow to implement, finally sets a clear direct...

The standards for how this works haven't been written yet. And that implementation detail will determine whether this actually works for people, or just replaces one broken system with another that serves the same advertising interests.

Cookie banners will definitely remain — for better or worse.