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The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate? inquiry

Inquiry by the Communications and Digital Committee, 28 March 2018 to 28 March 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 24 April 2018: Dr Victoria Nash, Deputy Director, Policy and Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute; Professor Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law, University of Essex; Professor Christopher Marsden, Professor of Internet Law, University of Sussex
  • 1 May 2018: Dr Damian Tambini, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics; Mark Bunting, Partner, Communications Chambers
  • 1 May 2018: Myles Jackman, Legal Director, Open Rights Group; Javier Ruiz Diaz, Policy Director, Open Rights Group
  • 8 May 2018: Rachel Coldicutt, Chief Executive Officer, Doteveryone; Julian Coles, Independent Digital Media Policy Consultant; Dr Konstantinos Komaitis, Director of Policy Development, Internet Society
  • 15 May 2018: Susie Hargreaves OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Internet Watch Foundation; Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, National Police Chiefs’ Council; Will Kerr, Director of Vulnerabilities, National Crime Agency; Donald Toon, Director of Prosperity, National Crime Agency; Detective Superintendent Phil Tomlinson, Head of National Digital Exploitation Service, Metropolitan Police.
  • 22 May 2018: Robert Colvile, Director, Centre for Policy Studies; Jamie Bartlett, Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos; and Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research
  • 22 May 2018: Dom Hallas, Executive Director, Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec); and Antony Walker, Deputy Chief Executive, techUK
  • 19 June 2018: Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics; and Tony Stower, Head of Child Safety Online, NSPCC
  • 19 June 2018: Jenny Afia, Partner, Schillings; and Mark Stephens CBE, Partner, Howard Kennedy LLP
  • 26 June 2018: Dr Ewa Luger, Chancellor’s Fellow, Digital Arts and Humanities, University of Edinburgh; Professor John Naughton, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
  • 26 June 2018: Professor Pinar Akman, Professor of Competition Law, University of Leeds; Dr Orla Lynskey, Assistant Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science; Dr Nicolo Zingales, Lecturer in Competition and Information Law, University of Sussex
  • 10 July 2018: Daniel Butler, Head of Public Affairs and Policy, Virgin Media; Adam Kinsley, Director of Policy, Sky; Iain Wood, Director of Corporate Affairs and Regulation, TalkTalk Group
  • 11 September 2018: Jared Sine, General Counsel & Secretary, Match Group (via videolink); Nick Pickles, Senior Strategist, Public Policy, Twitter
  • 11 September 2018: Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner’s Office
  • 9 October 2018: Dr Andrea Coscelli, Chief Executive Officer, Competition and Markets Authority; Simon Constantine, Director, Policy and International, Competition and Markets Authority
  • 9 October 2018: Kevin Bakhurst, Group Director, Content and Media Policy, Ofcom; and Yih Choung Teh, Group Director, Strategy and Research, Ofcom
  • 16 October 2018: Dan Brooke, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Channel 4; Magnus Brooke, Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, ITV; Clare Sumner CBE, Director, Policy, BBC
  • 23 October 2018: Caroline Normand, Director of Policy, Which?
  • 23 October 2018: Mark Bridge, Technology Correspondent, The Times; Matt Reynolds, Staff Writer, Wired UK; Alex Hern, Technology Reporter, The Guardian
  • 30 October 2018: Hugh Milward, Director of Corporate, Legal and External Affairs, Microsoft; Katie O’Donovan, Public Policy Manager, UK, Google; and Rebecca Stimson, Head of Public Policy, UK, Facebook
  • 12 November 2018: Margot James MP, Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
  • 8 January 2019: Lesley Smith, Director Public Policy, UK & Ireland, Amazon