Find out how UK and EU regulation protects individuals’ data, and how this might change in the future.
Join leading experts in technology law, Andrew Murray and Orla Lynskey, for this free, one-hour workshop.
In this session you will:
- Learn the fundamentals of data regulation – how data is gathered and processed, held and stored according to the law
- Discuss how regulation supports opportunities for data use, and how regulation sets limitations on abuse or misuse of data
- Explore the latest legal developments including the Data Act and the AI Act
- Consolidate your understanding with a live Q&A
Meet our speakers and chair
Orla Lynskey is an Associate Professor at LSE Law School and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. Her expertise lies in the law and regulation of the digital society, with a particular focus on data laws. She has published widely in this area, with her most recent co-authored work in the Iowa Law Review examining the legal implications of synthetic data. She has extensive experience engaging with policy-makers, including leading the recent overhaul of the Commonweath Model Law on Data Protection. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of International Data Privacy Law (published by Oxford University Press) and on the Editorial Committees of the Modern Law Review and the Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law (JIPITEC).
Andrew Murray is Professor of Law at LSE and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is the Academic Director of LSE’s Law, Technology and Society research group and is Academic Director of LSE Online. He has been since 2014 a visiting Professor at the Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute and was in Spring 2015 and Spring 2017 a visiting Professor at the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po).
More about the event
This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 13 May.
LSE Law School is one of the world's top law schools with an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and legal research.
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