Jessica Bancroft

A broader approach to digital regulation: Empowering users by enabling active choices online

Jessica Bancroft and Grace Elcock, 18 August 2021 - Data, Public engagement, Responsible innovation

In February 2020, we published our review of online targeting, which included a number of recommendations to government, regulators and industry, regarding how data is used to shape the online experience. In the final report, we recommended that online platforms …

Enabling active choices online: Trialling behaviourally informed prototypes

Nathan Bookbinder-Ryan and Jessica Bancroft, 16 June 2021 - Data, Public engagement, Responsible innovation

Following publication of our review of online targeting, we began to work with the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) to explore different ways to empower users to make active choices online about their privacy and personalisation settings. We defined “active choices” …

Supporting new approaches to enable trustworthy data sharing and improve data access across the economy

Jessica Bancroft, 24 May 2021 - Data, Data-sharing, Public engagement, Responsible innovation

Last week, government published the response to the National Data Strategy consultation, and laid the ICO’s Data Sharing Code of Practice before Parliament. Respondents to the consultation considered questions relating to the five priority areas for action that government set …

Testing new approaches to responsible innovation

Jessica Bancroft, 17 December 2020 - Artificial intelligence, Data-driven technology, Responsible innovation

In this blog, we highlight how, as proposed in the UK government’s National Data Strategy, the CDEI is increasingly working in partnership with public sector bodies and industry on live projects, and building out its capability to help the government …

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