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Responding to Covid-19: Surveillance, Trust and the Rule of Law
The purpose of this analysis is to focus on the multi-level challenges that, regardless of its form, what is in effect a post-Covid system of mass surveillance poses on well-established principles of law, rights, trust and citizenship
Date added: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Open textured legislation in the times of Covid-19: 'reasonable excuse’ and legal certainty'
This blog examines the problems that can arise when Parliament chooses to regulate conduct in an open-textured manner
Date added: Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Covid-19: European rules for using personal data
What existing national security legislation, new bulk analysis efforts, and emergency measures have different states deployed to curb the spread of Covid-19?
Date added: Thursday, June 4, 2020
Covid-19: A New Struggle over Privacy, Data Protection and Human Rights?
What existing national security legislation, new bulk analysis efforts, and emergency measures have different states deployed to curb the spread of Covid-19?
Date added: Thursday, June 4, 2020
An Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdown: Surrendering to Surveillance with Different Design Choices
There are many questions to be asked regarding digital contact tracing apps developed in response to the coronavirus crisis
Date added: Monday, June 8, 2020
Digital apps in times of Covid 19: an illusionary solution
How is it possible to believe, and to make people believe, that the actions of digital tracking and detection of the movements of potential patients will make it possible to re-establish a "normalized" health and economic order with an acceptable victim rate and to deconflict without too much risk?
Date added: Thursday, June 18, 2020
Regulating public heath on ‘Super Saturday’: misstatements and legal uncertainty
Revised regulations make no reference to “two households”, “multiple households” or “groups of up to six”, or (for that matter) to ‘linked households’. The view - that two households "of any size" could get together in a “private dwelling" - was misplaced.
Date added: Monday, July 6, 2020
The impact of increasing domestic violence as a result of COVID-19 on those with insecure immigration status
The COVID-19 pandemic and isolation which has ensued, has driven a dramatic rise in the number of reports of domestic violence in the UK. The Guardian reported that during the first four weeks of lockdown, 13 women and four children were killed in the UK, while calls to domestic violence helplines increased by 120%. This devastating consequence of lockdown is not confined to the UK, but is being felt globally.
Date added: Wednesday, July 22, 2020
EU Fundamental Rights, Human Rights and Free Movement in times of Covid19
In this blog Professor Elspeth Guild will briefly outline the key fundamental rights which are put in question under each category and conclude with some general comments.
Date added: Friday, July 24, 2020
'Mingling' and the 'Rule of Six'
What do the expressions “mingle” and “rule of six” actually mean?
Date added: Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Conflating "Guidance" and "Rules" - Restrictions on "Exercise" during the Jan 21 Covid Lockdown
From the 6 January 2021, every area in England has been placed into Tier 4. That tier is subject to a number of restrictions which, collectively, have been styled a “lockdown”.
Date added: Thursday, January 14, 2021
Empty Threats Make the Most Noise
A row erupted on 9 February 2021 when Mr Matt Hancock[1] announced that any passenger who submits a Passenger Locator Form in terms that conceal the fact that they had travelled in a ‘red list’ country[2] (such as Portugal) “could face a £10,000 fine or prosecution and up to 10 years in prison”.[3]
Date added: Friday, February 12, 2021
Greece’s Covid-19 Response: Not Beyond Reproach
Greece emerged as the EU’s poster child in the fight against Covid-19 during the first few months of the pandemic. Its approach, while effective, is not beyond reproach. We analyse two such contested areas of Covid-19 regulation: permits of movement obtained through SMS, and restrictions to the freedom of movement of asylum seekers. Our analysis draws from our forthcoming article in the European Journal of Risk Regulation (2021).
Date added: Friday, March 5, 2021