Hi there!

We’re delighted to invite you to a NINSO guest talk with Dr Paul Bernal (UEA) on ‘Why do Governments always get internet regulation wrong?’

WHAT: The regulation of the internet is becoming a bigger deal by the day. Fake news, trolling, copyright, extremist content, hate speech and more are all coming increasingly under the focus of governments. How do we get to grips with Facebook and Google? What about piracy? And yet with almost every move our governments seem to get it wrong - from excessive and ineffective surveillance to counterproductive ‘anti-trolling’ laws and copyright enforcement that threatens to stifle free speech and alienate generations. Why do we seem to always get it wrong? Using his new book, The Internet, Warts and All: Free Speech, Privacy and Truth, Paul Bernal will show how these issues are all interlinked and suggest at least some ways forward that might have a chance of some kind of success - by looking at the internet more honestly: examining it ‘warts and all’.

WHO: Paul Bernal is a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the University of East Anglia, and specialises in internet privacy and related rights – his book The Internet, Warts and All: Free Speech, Privacy and Truth was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. His areas of research interest include surveillance by both government agencies and corporations, the political use of data and the use (and misuse) of social media: he is a prolific blogger (at https://paulbernal.wordpress.com) and tweeter (as @paulbernalUK).

WHEN: Tuesday 12^th March in at 1-2pm

WHERE: CCE1 – 410 (Northumbria University, Faculty of Business and Law)

WHY: delicious food will be served before the talk at 12:30 (and yes, the speaker is brilliant and the topic is hot) J

HOW: register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-do-governments-always-get-internet-regulation-wrong-tickets-57796994366

Cheers

Guido on behalf of NINSO Northumbria Internet & Society Research Group

PS Last seats available for Rachel Adam’s talk ‘Make Google Do It’ on virtual assistants and gender: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-google-do-it-tickets-56349087638

Guido Noto La Diega, PhD
Senior Lecturer – International Research Partnerships Coordinator (Law)

Northumbria University 
Director @italiot | Co-convenor @NinsoRIG | Fellow @nexacenter

T: +44(0)191 349 5562

E: guido.notoladiega@northumbria.ac.uk

Room 105, Faculty of Business and Law, City Campus East 1, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, United Kingdom

Recent papers include:

‘Against the dehumanisation of decision-making. Algorithmic decisions at the crossroads of intellectual property, data protection, and freedom of information’ (2018)

‘Can the law fix the problems of fashion? An empirical study on social norms and power imbalance in the fashion industry’ (2018)

Visit Academia.edu and SSRN for open access to my research!

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