A terrific line up of talks at Sussex Digital Humanities Lab today, part of PhD symposium convened by @sandy yu @tatiana makhoul @sara al sherif / full programme here www.canva.com/design/DAHL5... kicking off with @jim killock @openrightsgroup.org on digital sovereignty - tech giants & giant slayers

terrific & inspiring stuff in Graphic Justice stream, now to IT & Cyberspace, kicking off with Lisa Flower's work on 'Virtual reality and the courtroom'. Asking: "which key sociological issues do we need to consider when VR merges with the courtroom?" #slsa2026

a great first day at #slsa2026 in the legal borderlands stream, and gender/sexuality & law. Today I'm hopping into Graphic Justice, looking forward to hearing about @lawbore.bsky.social's latest work w. Rachel Warner "Designing with Emotion in Mind: Visual Legal Tools for Accessing Justice"

pleased to be at #slsa2026 , this year on home turf. Huge credit to all my colleagues in Sussex law dept organising this event. I'll be presenting in 2 streams this pm. In Legal Borderlands w. Daniel Clark, on open justice, and on the 'gendered chilling effect' in the Gender & Sexuality stream

Our collective and individual tributes to @rmwilliams.bsky.social , great friend and supporter of the University of Sussex University of Sanctuary group and Sussex Centre for Migration Research blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr...

Cautiously optimistic for the UK's renewed (or revived?) commitment to open government and transparency by taking on the co-chair role @opengovpartnership.org from Oct 2026. I attended a meeting yesterday with government/civil society updating on the 6th National Action Plan & looking ahead to 7th

The final straw – the Information Commissioner's Office has decided NOT to investigate the Afghan data leak. It's time to investigate them! Over 70 organisations and experts back ORG's call for an inquiry into the regulator's chronic failure to enforce data law. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog

Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach

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useful insights into AI uses in policing, and what the Scottish police does/doesn't do, based on law and governance. Key point: police as a public body will never keep pace with private sector - does not receive funding available to corporate sector

InfoLawCentre@IALS@infolawcentre.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We delighted to announce that this year’s ILPC Annual Lecture will be delivered by Dr Brian Plastow, the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner. The Lecture will launch the proceedings of the ILPC Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️20-21 November 2025. Register now!👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/events/ilpc-...

attending this today, 10 years since we organised the very first one! congratulations to @nniloideain.bsky.social and all for a rich programme of research & policy work in the years since. Looking forward to the day

InfoLawCentre@IALS@infolawcentre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Only 2 days to go! Join us on Wednesday for a timely discussion on the themes and findings of the book - EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime. @ials.bsky.social @nniloideain.bsky.social

bravo @jessicashurson.bsky.social on impressive convening of today's Online Safety Act 2023 event at University of Sussex, v much enjoyed the discussions and diversity of perspectives. Thanks to other supporting colleagues & all the presenters too.

today at Sussex Law School, Sussex Centre for Law and Technology, a day of papers and discussion devoted to the Online Safety Act 2023, and its future www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Ending the day at Green Templeton College yesterday, after many rich discussions with court observers and legal/policy specialists on the nature and challenges of doing open justice, through court observation and reporting.

happening this time next week. Still places available, I believe - or you can register for a live-stream.

Judith Townend@jtownend.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share! Public lecture - Mr Justice Nicklin - Open Justice: Fit for Purpose - Wednesday 4 June 2025 17:00 to 19:00 Location: Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin Register here: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

In The Guardian in print and online today speaking about the catalyst that triggered me to write Logging Off, and changed my life forever. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Please share! Public lecture - Mr Justice Nicklin - Open Justice: Fit for Purpose - Wednesday 4 June 2025 17:00 to 19:00 Location: Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin Register here: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Join us Sussex Digital Humanities Lab on 19 June for a conversation about the human cost of the digital world with @adelewalton.bsky.social, journalist & author www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen... pls register for in-person/remote attendance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/logging-of...

Logging Off

In the 30 years since we’ve been online, we've created connections, crossed boundaries and discovered new worlds, but at what cost?

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V. much enjoying this fast paced keynote on psychological inoculation against misinformation, though a little nervous to live-report any of it, till I've checked the citations at source #bennettinst

As yet, no direct discussion on role of the news media/social media in political disenchantment & neglected areas, I'm curious to know if the panel would support public policy interventions to support local media - and in what form #bennettinst

Now onto "tackling political disenchantment in ‘forgotten about’ places: what should governments try now?" Prof Andrés Rodríguez-Pose starts off, describing the crisis/crises we're in; why/how people are in revolt #bennettinst

onto post-lunch third panel #bennettinst, on building a productive society. First concept: the 4 day week, advocated for by sociologist Brendan Burchell. coming from business, interestingly, and proving successful

pleased to be here today, esp for later sessions on political disenchantment and misinformation: www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Bennett Institute for Public Policy@bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · last yr.

The Bennett Institute Annual Conference 2025 is about to start and it’s a full house here at Churchill College with 100s more delegates joining online. There’s still time to register to watch online: bit.ly/3XKk6lp #BennettInst

This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating

The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...

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Some responses to the Judicary's Transparency & Open Justice Board call for engagement on proposed objectives. If you have a submission to add, pls let me know courtobservers.org/2025/03/04/r... / Thanks: @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk @kitzingercelia.bsky.social @maggotlaw.bsky.social

Responses to the Judiciary’s Transparency & Open Justice Board Proposed Objectives

Back in December, the Judiciary’s Transparency and Open Justice Board asked for views on its proposed objectives (which had been promised in the earlier Terms of Reference for the Board). Mem…

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Finally sat down with my copy of the @queerjudgments.bsky.social book, and accidentally lost several hours of my Sunday in the process. Highly recommended! #queer #academicsky #lawsky #booksky

Join us at the new Sussex Centre for Law and Technology for a research and policy seminar on the Online Safety Act! The seminar is partly funded by the @bileta.bsky.social Research Seminar Awards. 📍 Sussex uni and online 🗓️ Friday 6 June 2025 Call for papers: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/law-...

Research and Policy Seminar: The Future of the Online Safety Act 2023 - Call for Papers

We invite academics (including postgraduate researchers), practitioners,policy researchers to submit papers on any aspect of the Online Safety Act.

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Transparency updates from the family court: rule changes to allow more reporting from the family courts and the naming of the judges in the Sara Sharif family court proceedings. Links to coverage and commentary: courtobservers.org/2025/01/31/t...

Transparency updates from the family court

(1) What was introduced as the Reporting ‘Pilot’ in 2023 is now a permanent change in family courts, to allow more reporting by journalists and legal bloggers. Within a few months, reporting will b…

courtobservers.org

At last! The Government has published a summary of responses to its 2023 open justice consultation: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a5a... It's a summary - no recommendations or conclusions of the MOJ's own at this stage. 131 responses, mix of backgrounds, including individual court users

*Very* excited about this - an unconference on public involvement/engagement in public sector decisions on data & AI! We also have the latest online meeting of our community of practice on that topic (with speakers from LOTI and @involveuk.bsky.social) on 12 Feb connectedbydata.org/events/2025-...

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice

On Wednesday 12 February 2025 at 2pm we will hold the fifth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

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Connected by Data@connectedbydata.org · 2y ago

Are you interested interested in ensuring that public, community and worker voices are heard in decisions about data, digital and AI? Are you working inside the public sector? We're hosting an unconference in London on 20 March that we think you'll love. connectedbydata.org/events/2025-...

The government is considering whether to reverse a legal presumption that played a key role in Post Office scandal. rozenberg.substack.com/p/computer-s...

Computer says nothing

Should we reverse the presumption that machines tell the truth?

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Start HERE for a thread of all our live-posts of the anonymous judge appeal. We will try to post in a continuous thread. We'll do our best to cover everything accurately, & to use exact words when possible but may need to summarise. The hearing starts at 10.30 today (Tues) and is listed for 2 days.