Making Sense of Tech Law

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Making Sense of Tech Law

From surveillance capitalism to racial bias in AI and deepfake media, SCL Student Bytes are here to give you the latest discussions surrounding the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution.

Episodes

  1. Episode 9: Trump, Facebook, and Human Rights

    20/06/2021

    Episode 9: Trump, Facebook, and Human Rights

    MSTL speaks to Susan Benesch, director and founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, and Faculty Associate of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, about the Facebook Oversight Board's decision to uphold the ban on Donald Trump's Facebook account, and the role of international human rights law in providing oversight for social media content.

    43 min
  2. Episode 8: NFTs: A Lasting Trend?

    10/05/2021

    Episode 8: NFTs: A Lasting Trend?

    'What is being traded is not the artwork, it's the participation.'CFO and Co-Founder of Capexmove, Eti Cüneyt, discusses what NFTs are, why the NBA is using them, and how the world may respond to the continuing expansion of the cryptosphere.

    11 min
  3. Episode 7: Reducing Online Harms: A Statutory Duty of Care

    11/04/2021

    Episode 7: Reducing Online Harms: A Statutory Duty of Care

    What duties does the internet owe you? A discussion with Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Essex, on establishing a statutory duty of care owed by internet platforms to users of their services.

    33 min
  4. Episode 6: The Rise of Legal Tech in Asylum Justice

    24/02/2021

    Episode 6: The Rise of Legal Tech in Asylum Justice

    How are HighQ and Bryter are being used to assist Refugees in Greece?Phil Worthington, Managing Director of European Lawyers in Lesvos (ELIL), explains how these platforms are being used to increase access to justice for the thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Samos.

    24 min

  5. 10/02/2021

    5 Min Answers: Is the law holding AI back?

    AI's potential vs legal uncertainty. Who wins?Head of AI at Gowling WLG and co-editor of ‘The Law of Artificial Intelligence’ gives us an insight.Full conversation out now.

    4 min

  6. 27/01/2021

    Episode 5: Crimes Against Humanity: The impact of digital evidence

    Understanding and assisting the use of digital evidence to increase accountability for atrocity crimes and human rights abuses.This goal and more is shared by Bethany Houghton, assistant counsel at Public International Law and Policy Group.

    25 min

  7. 18/01/2021

    5 Min Answers: How Would You Answer This Year’s SCL Student Essay Prize Question?

    There is increasing concern that machine learning tools embed bias in their operations and outputs. To what extent does the law currently provide adequate protection from or adequate redress in respect of any such discrimination?

    2 min

  8. 06/01/2021

    5 Min Answers: Crimes against humanity are growing more visible online, but does that lead to more accountability?

    This clip is taken from a full conversation with Bethany Houghton, assistant counsel at The Public International Law and Policy Group. Coming soon.

    3 min

  9. 04/01/2021

    Episode 4: Is the law holding AI back?

    Matt Hervey--Head of AI at Gowling WLG and co-editor of 'The Law of Artificial Intelligence'--talks about the law's protection against bias in AI, distrust in AI, future of AI law, and more.

    26 min
  10. Episode 3: Data Ownership & the GDPR

    19/10/2020

    Episode 3: Data Ownership & the GDPR

    CEO of tech start-up SayMine, Gal Ringel, talks about how notions of data ownership have changed in the GDPR era, and the role of the private sector in making these rights accessible to the general public.

    42 min
  11. Episode 2: Predictive Policing and Non-Discrimination

    21/09/2020

    Episode 2: Predictive Policing and Non-Discrimination

    Jacob Turner of Fountain Court Chambers sheds light on the issues surrounding the use of predictive policing, explainability of AI decision making, potential legal or non-legal solutions, and whether AI ought to be bestowed with legal personhood.Timestamps:0:07 Introducing Jacob Turner and overview of current use of predictive policing05:36 Is there negative stigmatisation of such AI technologies?07:48 Is increasing complexity of AI an issue?10:23 How should AI be regulated? Hard/soft laws, sector-specific solutions, public/private use distinction, balance struck in UK and EU, alternatives to legislation)24:15 Legal personhood of AI discussed within 'Robot Rules'29:25 Would AI liability serve justice for possible victims of discriminatory facial recognition? Accountability and notions of justice35:24 Public outrage's impact on AI use37:14 Roundup of topics discussed and Jacob's Solicitor Advocate journey42:07: Switch to Bar and differences in skills used

    44 min

  12. 26/08/2020

    Episode 1: Is Big Infrastructure the next big data issue? A look at COVID-19 contact tracing apps

    Anna Hoffman, a barrister at 4 Pump Court Chambers in London, gives us an insight into UK’s developing tracing apps and the extent to which those may impede on our basic rights to privacy. The UK’s handling of the pandemic may serve as a microcosm of future issues facing the regulation of technology such as the growth of colossal tech companies, showing increasing divergence in attitudes to privacy between the West and Asia.

    30 min
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