[Reader-list] Internet Surveillance Policy: "...the second time as farce?"; Public lecture by Caspar Bowden

[Nishant Shah]

Dear All,
I am sure this is going to be of interest to a lot of people on the group.
Please do come for the lecture if you are in Bangalore. Also, feel free to
distribute this widely to people and communities that you think might find
this interesting.

I apologies for cross-posting.

Warmly
Nishant
*Internet Surveillance Policy: “…the second time as farce?” – A Public
Lecture by Caspar Bowden *

*The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, invites you to a public
lecture by Caspar Bowden*, the Chief Privacy Adviser of Microsoft’s
Worldwide Technology Office, on Internet Surveillance Policy: “…the second
time as farce?*
 Abstract

In 2000, as Director of the independent think-tank, "Foundation for
Information Policy
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Caspar led a campaign to revise several aspects of a new comprehensive UK
law governing electronic surveillance ("the RIP
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UK legislated in this area many years before most other countries, and the
approach was widely criticized although some amendments were achieved. After
a hiatus of a decade, many Commonwealth countries are now copying the RIP
law (evidently unaware of the original controversies over its defects).
Caspar will discuss the legal-technical intricacies of such legislation, the
underlying policy dilemmas, the background context of the failed 1990s
policy of “key escrow”, and the subsequent privacy catastrophe of blanket
retention of the “traffic data” of all of the 500m citizens of the EU.
   Caspar Bowden

Caspar Bowden is Microsoft's Worldwide Technology Officer for Privacy,
providing advice on technology policy matters concerning privacy in over 40
countries, with particular focus on Europe and regions with horizontal
privacy law. His goal is to ensure that users of Microsoft products and
services are in control of their personal data and that fair information
practices are respected. He is a specialist in data protection policy,
privacy enhancing technology research, identity management and
authentication.

Earlier he was the director of the Foundation for Information Policy
Research and was also an expert adviser to the UK Parliament for the passage
of three bills concerning privacy issues, and was co-organizer of the
influential Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK encryption and
surveillance policy. His previous career over two decades ranged from
investment banking (proprietary trading risk-management for option
arbitrage), to software engineering (graphics engines and cryptography),
including work for Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn,
Research Machines, and IBM.
 Who should attend?

This public talk aims to engage in a dialogue with anybody interested in
questions of technology, surveillance, policy and the politics of Internet
based governance. Students, research scholars, academics, practitioners,
those in the business of technology development, design and study, are
invited to attend the lecture that approaches the issue from different
angles of technology, society and politics.

Entry: Free; Limited Seating

Registration recommended: prasad at cis-india.org

* *Caspar is speaking in his private capacity and his remarks do not
necessarily reflect any official Microsoft position*

Date: Jun 27, 2011

Venue: TERI Complex, Domlur 2nd Stage, Bangalore

Time: 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.


-- 
Nishant Shah
Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore.
Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org )
Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09
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