Author archive for HRBDT

  • Sep152020

    HRBDT News Update: January – August 2020

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    I am delighted to introduce the first update of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project for 2020,…

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  • Sep112020

    Essex Expertise Informs Facial Recognition Decision

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    The expertise and leading-edge research of three Essex academics has informed a landmark judgment on police use of facial recognition.…

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  • Aug182020

    When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong – Pete Fussey Interviewed for Police and Facial Recognition Podcast by MIT Technology Review

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    Project Co-Director Prof Pete Fussey was recently interviewed for ‘When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong’, the first in a four-part…

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  • Aug042020

    The ‘Uberization of Policing’? How Police Negotiate and Operationalise Predictive Policing Technology

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    Predictive policing generally refers to police work that utilises strategies, algorithmic technologies, and big data to generate near-future predictions about…

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  • Aug012020

    Applied Development Economics Series – “Layoffs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence”

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    Professor Sonia Bhalotra presented research at a virtual seminar organised by The Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB)…

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  • Jul202020

    COVID-19, Law and Human Rights: Essex Dialogues

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    Researchers from the HRBDT project have contributed to an extensive response to the coronavirus pandemic published by the Human Rights…

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  • Jun102020

    Webinar – Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy: A Business and Human Rights Approach

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    On 2 June 2020 Professor Lorna McGregor spoke at a virtual seminar organised by the British Institute of International and…

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  • May292020

    Expert Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Privacy

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    The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights organised an expert seminar to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) affects…

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  • May072020

    HRBDT Team sets out Requirements for Deployment of UK Contact-Tracing App in Submission to UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights

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    The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project team, comprising experts in human rights law, surveillance and computer science from…

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  • Apr302020

    Contact-tracing Apps and Human Rights

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    This post originally appeared on the EJIL: Talk! blog. The Covid-19 pandemic engages the full spectrum of states’ human rights…

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