data security

Digital technologies and data privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic

A Nature Medicine review, led by researchers in the EPSRC funded i-sense project, looks at how digital technologies have been mobilised for a global public health response to COVID-19 and the associated concerns with privacy and efficacy in an evolving digital world.

Lead author and Director of i-sense EPSRC IRC at UCL, Prof Rachel McKendry said: “Our review shows that digital technologies have an important role in a comprehensive response to the pandemic, alongside conventional measures.”

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Calling on collaboration from tech companies to curb the COVID-19 pandemic

Scientists from i-sense are calling on technology companies to work with researchers and governments to help curb the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing their data in a legal, proportionate, ethical and privacy-preserving manner.

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Privacy Rights and Public Information

By Benedict Rumbold and Dr James Wilson
Philosophy, University College London

In their newly published article, Privacy Rights and Public Information, which was published in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Benedict Rumbold and James Wilson seek to explore the right to privacy for an individual when they have made information public.

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i-sense contain a Llama Outbreak at Greenman Festival 2016!

We invited festival goers on a interactive experience, to help us control an infectious disease outbreak!

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i-sense researcher joins National Data Guardian panel

i-sense philosopher James Wilson joins National Data Guardian panel to build trust in health and social data.

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Ingemar Cox wins the IEEE SPS "Sustained Impact Paper Award"

i-sense Deputy Director Ingemar Cox has been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2015 Sustained Impact Paper Award.

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Invitation to the public to join our research: Ethics of i-sense technologies

i-sense and the UCL Department of Philosophy are calling on the public to participate in a focus group on privacy and health care data.

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Research in Philosophy, Justice and Health Seminar 2015: The Right to Privacy

An excellent opportunity for i-sense researchers and students to attend a seminar series on ethics, health and privacy.

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i-sense Lunchtime Seminar Series: Dr James Wilson

Dr James Wilson will address the ethical challenges of big data for disease surveillance at the next lunchtime seminar

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i-sense funded projects

Since the beginning of i-sense, we have been supporting new projects that promote a new culture of engagement and forward thinking initiatives between academics, the public, patients, clinicians, industry, regulators, policy makers and the media in order to complement and strengthen the expertise of the consortium.