The Surveillance
Society
Including
Caspar Bowden, Tom Sorell, Judith Rauhofer.
Post Snowden, where do
we go now? When is surveillance acceptable, and when is it wrong? Should whole
swathes of public policy regarding surveillance now be junked? Three leading
experts in the field present accessible and fascinating talks on our emerging
surveillance society – and what to do about it.
Organized and chaired by Stephen Law
Saturday May 3rd 2014
Conway Hall (Main Hall)
25 Red Lion Square
Holborn
London
WC1R 4RL
(Nr Holborn Tube)
£10 (£5 students) Free to friends of CFI UK.
10.30am registration. 11am – 3.45pm
Tickets available at https://humanism.org.uk/events/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=57
11.00 Caspar Bowden. Caspar
Bowden is an independent advocate for information privacy rights, and public
understanding of privacy research in computer science. For nine years he was
Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft for forty countries.
12.00 Tom Sorell. Professor
of Philosophy, University of Warwick. Tom will be talking about the relation
between the power of an agent of surveillance and the prima facie wrongness of
surveillance.
1.45 Judith Rauhofer. Is a
lawyer and lecturer in IT law at the University of Edinburgh. She will be
speaking about about surveillance and the rule of law, the different
understandings of "lawfulness" and the concept of privacy as a common
good.
2.45 Plenary.
3.45 END
CFI UK reserves the
right to change the programme due to unforeseen circumstances.
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