Lilian Edwards
Chair of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School. GDPR nerd. #girlyswot. DMs open. Views personal, do not represent those of Newcastle University.
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Coronavirus: Police granted access to details of people told to self-isolate by Test and Trace
Sky News 135d 6 tweets
The Department of Health and Social Care has said information will be shared with police on a 'case-by-case' basis.
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Lilian Edwards Theres no way that sharing data that someone has been told to self isolate is not sharing health data. Theres also no way this wont massively destroy trust in the app. 135d
Ministers plan pre-Christmas Covid lockdown for English universities
Richard Adams, Sally Weale - the Guardian 138d 18 tweets
Exclusive: students would be told to remain on campus and all teaching done online
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Lilian Edwards I actually dont know what to say to this. They wouldn't listen. They didnt listen. They're making this up one focus group at a time. Two thirds of my first year students in halls have the virus. This was the worst idea in the long history of worst ideas 138d
AI cameras being used on UK streets to monitor social distancing
Evening Standard 144d 3 tweets
Artificial Intelligence cameras are being used in London and other cities in the UK to monitor social distancing.  The sensors were initially developed by Vivacity to track the flow of traffic, cyclists and pedestrians and monitor how roads are...
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Lilian Edwards So wheres the DPIA on this? What data is actually collected? 144d
Sidewalk Labs closed down – whither Google’s smart city? - RSA Regions
RSA Regions 145d 1 tweets
Download ArticleBy Constance Carr (email), Markus Hesse (email), Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Luxembourg This article was adapted, revised and updated from the original, “Sidewalk Labs is closing down – Lessons from...
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Lilian Edwards What happened to Sidewalk Labs? 145d
England’s Covid-19 strategy is all about London. Sorry, northerners
WIRED UK 148d 3 tweets
Northern mayors are joining efforts to shift the focus of a Covid-19 response that is stuck just south of Watford
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Lilian Edwards England’s Covid-19 strategy is all about London. Sorry, northerners "The evidence seems to show that the national release of restrictions was done on London’s trajectory and not the entire country.” 148d
New UK app records police encounters and saves footage in cloud
the Guardian 150d 2 tweets
Legal Lifelines app is intended to provide alternative perspective to police bodycam evidence
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Lilian Edwards David Brin will be happy at this hour 150d
'Loss of smell clearer sign of Covid than cough'
BBC News 151d 4 tweets
Four out of five people reporting loss of sense of smell or taste had coronavirus antibodies.
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Lilian Edwards Coronavirus: Loss of smell may be clearer sign than cough omg, JoinZoe knew this in April. 151d
Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom
MIT Technology Review 154d 9 tweets
The news: Two political ads will broadcast on social media today, featuring deepfake versions of Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Both deepfake leaders will be giving the same message: that America doesn’t need...
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Lilian Edwards #regulatingunreality 153d
University Covid Cases | Tracking Covid at U.K. Universities
Unicovid.uk 161d 4 tweets
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Lilian Edwards University Covid Cases | Tracking Covid at U.K. Universities ..useful 154d
Dominic Cummings' data law shake-up a danger to trade, says EU
the Guardian 158d 2 tweets
Exclusive: proposed rewriting of data protection rules said to put vital cooperation in doubt
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Lilian Edwards Well, either this means the govt has already strategically decided adequacy isn't going to happen, or... simply no one is driving this bus 🤷‍♀️ 158d
Uber backup driver charged in fatal 2018 self-driving car crash
The Verge 167d 2 tweets
The crash happened back in March 2018.
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Lilian Edwards Vasquez has plead not guilty. Let the games begin. 165d
Doctored audio evidence used to damn father in custody battle
The Telegraph 165d 1 tweets
Doctored audio files and footage - known as 'deepfakes' - are being submitted to UK courts as evidence, a family lawyer has warned
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Lilian Edwards From March when we had other things on our minds , but as predicted last July by me.. 165d
How Covid-19 Is Changing Workplace Surveillance: American Workers’ Experiences and Privacy Expectations When Working from Home - Covid-19 and the Social Sciences - Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Covid-19 and the Social Sciences - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) 165d 1 tweets
The future of work is increasingly intertwined with widespread data collection of employee data for workplace monitoring, safety and efficiency tracking, predictive analytics, and performance evaluations. With the global Covid-19 pandemic, work...
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Lilian Edwards How Covid-19 Is Changing Workplace Surveillance: American Workers’ Experiences and Privacy Expectations When Working from Home - Covid-19 and the Social Sciences - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) very intrigued by this ⁦⁩ ! 165d
Safety driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with homicide
U.K. 167d 1 tweets
The back-up safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies <UBER.N> test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Lilian Edwards Safety driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with homicide | Reuters 167d
If ICO won’t regulate the law, it must reboot itself
informationrightsandwrongs 171d 1 tweets
The exercise of the right of (subject) access under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the exercise of a fundamental right to be aware of and verify the lawfulness of th…
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Lilian Edwards If ICO won’t regulate the law, it must reboot itself – informationrightsandwrongs - this is a pretty damning case, albeit one data point - but imagine not enforcing criminal law because the criminal refuses to cooperate? 171d
House of Lords - Regina v. Bow Street Magistrates Court and Allison (A.P.) Ex Parte Government of the United States of America (on Appeal from a Divisional Court of the Queens Bench Division)
Publications.parliament.uk 178d 1 tweets
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Lilian Edwards For * sake. Authorisation to access a computer for one purpose ( repair) does not exclude charge of unauthorised access to data for which such authorisation not given. 178d
Computer shop hit with bad reviews after worker 'viewed woman's intimate photos'
edinburghlive 178d 1 tweets
Scathing one star reviews of Edinburgh Computer Repairs are now being left on the shop's Google page after the alleged incident.
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Lilian Edwards For * sake. Authorisation to access a computer for one purpose ( repair) does not exclude charge of unauthorised access to data for which such authorisation not given. 178d
Principles for managing SARS-CoV-2 transmission associated with higher education, 3 September 2020
GOV.UK 178d 7 tweets
Paper prepared by the Task and Finish Group on Higher Education/Further Education.
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Lilian Edwards So, reading the SAGE report on likely SARS-CoV-2 transmission in reopened f2f higher education is an absolute horror story. Like Brexit, by the end you just wonder why we would do this to ourselves. 1/3 178d
Asteroid heading towards Earth ‘has 0.41 per cent chance of hitting planet’
The Independent 191d 4 tweets
Projection comes after Nasa detects asteroid flying closer to Earth than ever before
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Lilian Edwards Asteroid with 0.41% chance of collision "predicted to pass near Earth one day before the US presidential election on 2 November." Oh please. At least we could stop worrying about mail fraud.... 191d
MPs criticise privacy watchdog over NHS test-and-trace data
hern - the Guardian 193d 1 tweets
UK information commissioner ‘must ensure government uses public’s data safely and legally’
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Lilian Edwards MPs criticise privacy watchdog over NHS test-and-trace data - wow all out attacks on regulators are I think pretty rare... 193d