Lachlan's Research

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  • Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things

    A quick blog post to say my new journal paper written with Neelima Sailaja and Derek McAuley called “Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things” is now out (available in Open Access). It is featured in a special edition of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on Privacy and the Internet of…

  • ETHICOMP/CEPE 2017: Smart Cities

    Time flies and it’s more than 18 months since the last ETHICOMP at De Montfort’s Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility in 2015. This time the conference moved further afield to the University of Torino, Italy, to be co-hosted with CEPE (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry). From the 5-8th July I attended 4 days of panels,…

  • TILTing Perspectives 2017

    Last week I was back over in the Netherlands for TILTing Perspectives Conference 2017. Hosted by Tilburg University at their Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, this was a 3-day event with around 200 presenters, 8 parallel sessions, 6 keynotes etc. I was over there presenting a WiP paper with Derek McAuley on Cybersecurity Implications…

  • From Leeds to Braga to Leiden

    The past month has involved a bit more travelling to various conferences and workshops. It started in Leeds at a workshop on electronic monitoring on 6th April. This is part of the Tracking People Seminar Series, with this one focusing on ethical and legal debates. Personal highlights for me were talks by Mike Nellis discussing both…

  • New Directions in IT law: learning from HCI

    Yesterday, my new journal article with Tom Rodden “New Directions in Information Technology Law: Learning from Human-Computer Interaction” was published in the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology. It is part of a special edition on law and algorithms edited by Joseph Savirimuthu from Liverpool University. Other articles in the edition consider accountability in…

  • New Paper: Ethical Dimensions of User Centric Regulation

    A new working paper has been added to Social Science Research Network called Ethical Dimensions of User Centric Regulation. This paper is set to be presented at CEPE/ETHICOMP 2017 in Turin, Italy later in the year, in the stream ‘ ICT and the City’. We question the ethical role of information technology (IT) designers in…

  • User Centric Regulation for the Domestic Internet of Things

    At the end of last week I returned to bonny Edinburgh for a talk at the Law School called “User Centric Regulation for the Domestic Internet of Things“. It was nice to return as an alumnus presenting on my PhD research and I was kindly hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s IT, IP and Media…

  • Two Forthcoming Papers

    I’ve put working versions of two forthcoming papers up onto Social Science Research Network (SSRN). The first, with Tom Rodden, is going to be in a special edition of the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology on algorithms and law being edited by Joseph Savirimuthu. It is titled “New Directions in Information Technology Law: Learning…

  • Towards User Centric Regulation

    It’s been a busy few months since my last update on this blog! I submitted my PhD and I’ve now started a new job too!  A couple of weeks ago I moved desks from the MRL over to Horizon to start as a Research Fellow in Information Technology Law. This shiny new role will involve…

  • ESRC Data PSST! Seminar Series

    A couple of weeks ago I ventured over to North Wales to  Bangor University for the final seminar in the ESRC Data PSST! Seminar series. As a bit of background, the project has been running for the past couple of years, and has seen many different speakers and attendees meeting up for critique and discussion…