This report summarises a policy roundtable held with 15 experts, unpacking legislative and regulatory interventions around misinformation and disinformation in the context of the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill.

This paper reports on a policy roundtable considering privacy legislation reforms prohibiting the targeting of children except where it is in their best interests. It makes recommendations on implementing the best interests principle, including developing clear guidelines to assess what best interests mean in practice.

The Chinese Communist Party operates a society-wide system of tech-enhanced authoritarian governance, facilitated by a sophisticated online censorship apparatus and internet-linked physical surveillance devices. This report outlines how the party-state communicates on issues related to surveillance, as well as people’s views on state surveillance, data privacy, facial recognition, DNA collection and data-management technologies.

The authors of this paper find that policy-makers are missing an opportunity to build trust in artificial intelligence (AI) by not involving a broader cross-section of the public in AI policy development.

This paper reflects discussions around targeted online advertising held in a roundtable of 16 policy experts from a privacy, human rights and consumer law perspective. A number of recommendations for stronger regulation in this area, including requiring explicit opt-in for targeted advertising, are made.