Conference dates:
20 November (In-Person only) IALS Council Chamber
21 November (Online only) via Zoom
Attendance (in person and online) will be free thanks to the support of our sponsors, although registration is required as places are limited.
Topics to be covered:
- Automated logging and immutable records
- Automation bias and human oversight
- Collection redress and class action lawsuits
- Co-regulatory measures, including sandboxes
- EU Digital Strategy and oversight mechanisms (such as AI Act, DSA, DMA)
- Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (UK)
- Data (Use and Access) Bill (UK)
- Investigatory powers and sanctions
- National and cross-border enforcement
- Red-teaming and independent oversight
- Regulatory ‘simplification’
- Role of civil society
- Whistleblowers
The ILPC Annual Conference will include the ILPC Annual Lecture 2025, and we are delighted to announce that this will be delivered by Dr Brian Plastow.
Dr Brian Plastow, the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner, was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen on 12 April 2021 on the nomination of the Scottish Parliament. He is a former police Chief Superintendent, and Lead Inspector, with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland. Brian has over four decades of policing experience in Scotland and has significant knowledge of, and practical experience in, the use of biometric data and technologies for criminal justice and policing purposes. He has also conducted independent research into policing, equalities, and human rights, and holds an MSc with Distinction in Community Safety, and a PhD in Criminology from the University of Leicester.
Other keynote speakers include
Mairead O’Reilly
Director of Legal Service – Enforcement, Information Commissioner’s Office
Helen Dixon
Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland (2014-24)
Professor Ben Saul
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Counter Terrorism
Professor David Erdos
University of Cambridge
Patricia Kosseim
Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario
Gus Hosein
Privacy International
Alexander MacGillivray
Deputy Chief Technology Officer, US White House (2021-23)
Valentina Pavel
Ada Lovelace Institute
Graham Smith
Of Counsel, Bird & Bird
The full programme is available here.
About the Information Law and Policy Centre
The Centre is based at IALS and was launched in 2015. Its mission is to undertake, promote, and facilitate, cross-disciplinary scholarship and research in the areas of information law and policy, domestically and internationally, in collaboration with a variety of organisations within the public and private sectors, and civil society.
