About this Event
Bookings are now open for the eleventh annual Institute of Brand and Innovation Law’s highly regarded, privacy, data and surveillance course to be held in February 2027.
Places are limited early booking is advised.
The 2027 course will take place on 15th and 16th February 2027 at UCL’s Faculty of Laws.
The two-day course takes a cross-disciplinary approach. This combination of law and practice is important if we are to take the practical implementation of privacy, of data protection and data security seriously. A group of world class speaker will address the topics listed below. Some feature every year, others are introduced in response to legal and policy developments and current events. For the first time, the course will examine the history, law and operational aspects of surveillance.
Previous year’s students have been complimentary, labelling their experience:
• “Fascinating.”
• “an excellent, if not terrifying, overview”;
• “brilliant, very information intense, but wonderfully conveyed”;
• “the right mixture of factual information and philosophical debate”;
• “The best course I have ever attended”.
Privacy, Data and Surveillance: The Law and Practice 10th Annual Event:
The 2027 Programme will include:
- An update on developments in Data Protection law
- The Consent Conundrum: Data Broking and Ad Sales Tech
- Press, Publicity and Privacy
- The Consultation into Biometric Data Governance
- Data, Security & Law Enforcement
- Data Interception & the History of Surveillance
- An Introduction to the Investigatory Powers Act
- The Independent Review of Applications under the Investigatory Powers Act
- Keynote: The Technology of Surveillance: State of the Art and Emerging Technologies
Privacy Annual Lecture
Each year the course is preceded by a public lecture on a related subject. Past speakers have included cyber security expert Mikko Hypponen and Max Schrems. In 2025, we featured two journalists and their KC. Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffery were the journalists arrested following their investigation of a massacre in Northern Ireland where the already identified perpetrators are still at large 30 years after their crime. The two journalists had won their legal challenge at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in December 2024.
The next UCL Annual Public Privacy Lecture will take place on January 27th 2027
The Speaker will be announced shortly
Event venue & nearby stays
UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, London, United Kingdom
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