Explaining AI decision making: ICO and the Alan Turing Institute consult on joint guidance
Consultation runs until on 24 January 2020….
Technology, Society & Justice
This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
MEP priorities for Digital Services, Act, ICO blog post, e-scooter inqury, CAA drone guidance, European parliament briefing on cryptoassets, WTO e-commerce report, ICANN consultation and reports on contract tracing in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week….
STEAM NOT STEM! Training, jobs and education in the age of AI
Lord Tim Clement-Jones ponders the impact that the growing use of AI will have on the world of work and what that means for the development of the curriculum. Adapted from his opening scene-setting speech delivered to the SCL World Café in November 2019….
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Voices from the World Cafe
David Chaplin, Editor of Computers & Law, was privileged to able to join in at the World Café that aimed to kick start new ideas for the law curriculum in the digital age. As he explains it was an impossible event to summarise….
This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Court of Appeal grants leave to appeal in facial recognition case The Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the High Court decision in R (on the application of Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police (Information Commissioner and another intervening) [2019] EWHC 2341, relating to South Wales’ police use of facial recognition…
Building a Tech Law Curriculum – SCL World Café – Friday 15 November 2019, London
Chair of the SCL Advisory Board, Simon Deane-Johns, explains the aims and objectives of SCL’s upcoming World Café event…
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Jobs Half Done: Getting Smart about Smartphones
Peter Leonard on why our thinking about how to control the data ecosystems that smartphones have created is still a work in progress….
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Open Source, Collaboration and the future of software
In our first contribution to our Predictions and Reflections for the year Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, reflects on her year in open source software, where it has come from and why it matters for the future….
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ICO raises concerns about current laws regulating live facial recognition technology
The ICO has carried out an investigation and its findings raise serious concerns about live facial technology. It calls for a code of practice….
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Tech law work is on the rise according to the results of our first SCL Barometer survey which has been published today
SCL’s downloadable resource on the health of the tech law sector is now available…