Lilian Edwards
Lilian Edwards is an academic and commentator specializing in law, particularly focusing on data protection, privacy, internet governance, and digital rights. Her writings often analyze legal and policy issues related to the internet, including topics such as Brexit's legal implications, the right to be forgotten, online abuse and policing, data protection challenges, and internet content regulation. She engages with complex intersections of technology, law, and society, providing critical insights into how legal frameworks adapt to digital environments. Her work is relevant to practitioners, policymakers, and scholars interested in privacy law, internet regulation, and digital rights.
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Google remembers, after only two weeks
Google has implemented the “right to be forgotten” imposed by Google Spain on 13 May 2014. At slightly over two weeks for a response, this puts most actual governments to shame 🙂 Having failed totally to comment on the original…
What are the police for? Twitter, abuse and reporting buttons
Like most UK women of any sense, my first reaction on reading some of the vicious threats of rape tweeted at the likes of Caroline Criado Perez and Stella Creasy was a heartfelt desire to track down the perpetrators myself…
The Death of Data Protection
While I’m reviving Pangloss, people might be interested to take a look at work in progress lecture I gave recently at the University of Goettingen
in Germany on “The Death of Data Protection” exploring ideas drawn from
the failure…
Porn-blocking season is here again..
The world woke up this morning to a rising crest of hysteria about the arrival of a Royal baby, and the sound of David Cameron making a determined lunge to secure the Daily Mail/Mumsnet vote before everyone (including him) goes…