[Air-L] CASPAR BOWDEN: How the Cloud became a privacy Guantanamo

[Andrew Hoskins]

Apologies for cross-posting


CASPAR BOWDEN

How the Cloud became a privacy Guantanamo: European complicity in facilitating NSA surveillance

ADAM SMITH RESEARCH FOUNDATION LECTURE (followed by reception)

Senate Room, University of Glasgow, Wednesday 6th November, 6pm.

Abstract: A report<http://t.co/aO07uQGIlg> commissioned for the EU Parliament inquiry into the activities of the US National Security Agency, and effects on fundamental rights, uncovered cold trails of European policymaker complicity, leading back to the EU/US Safe Harbour negotiations around 2000. At this time, official US strategy documents proclaimed the aim of full-spectrum "information dominance", which at the time might have seemed no more that the bombast of hyperbolic military planners. The scale of capabilities that Edward Snowden has revealed, together with other contemporary sources, seem to indicate that these plans have not only been realized but surpassed. This talk will reflect on cultural, political , academic, bureaucratic and economic strata which allowed the construction, in secret, of an apparatus beyond Orwell's (or Terry Gilliam's) imagination in just the past few years. What were the securocrats thinking, and how do they think about the lives and interests of those they claim to protect?

Caspar Bowden is an independent advocate for informational privacy rights, and public understanding of privacy research in computer science. He is a specialist in EU Data Protection, European and US surveillance law, PET research, identity management, and information ethics. He co-authored the 2012 report to  the European Parliament on Cloud computing, which anticipated risks to EU data sovereignty from "PRISM". For nine years he was Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft for forty countries, and previously co-founded and was first director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (www.fipr.org<http://www.fipr.org/>). He was an expert adviser for UK Parliamentary legislation, and co-organized six public conferences on encryption, data retention, and interception policy. He has previous careers in financial engineering and risk management, and software engineering (systems, 3D games, applied cryptography), including work with Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM. He founded the Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, is a fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the advisory bodies of several civil society associations.

This Adam Smith Reseach Foundation<http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/adamsmith/> Lecture is organised in association with the ESRC research seminar series Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights<http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/esrc-research-seminar-series> (ES/I001816/2) led by Prof. Gillian Youngs, University of Brighton.

It is co-organised by CREATe<http://www.create.ac.uk/> the RCUK centre for copyright and new business models in the creative economy led by the University of Glasgow, and by Policy Scotland<http://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/> a policy research and knowledge exchange hub based at the University of Glasgow.

All are welcome but registration is essential as numbers are limited.

Reserve your place here:

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Professor Andrew Hoskins
Interdisciplinary Research Professor In Global Security

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