FIPR's 20th Birthday

May 29, 2018
Computer Laboratory
Cambridge

The Foundation for Information Policy Research was launched on May 29th 1998 in the run-up to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. It's time to celebrate twenty years of public service and discuss what the future might hold. We will ask both speakers and audience members: what's changed, what's stayed the same, and what's next?

In addition to organising conferences on surveillance, FIPR has worked on many topics around privacy, digital rights and cybercrime. Our first decade's achievements included significant amendments to surveillance and export control laws and the foundation of EDRi. Landmark publications from our second decade include Children's Databases, Security Economics and the EU, Database State, Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem, Taking down websites to prevent crime, and the EU IoT report.

10:00 Registration

Link to the morning session

Live stream link to the afternoon session

10:30 Welcome – Fleur Fisher

10:35 First panel – Crypto wars: the control of interception and surveillance

• The Earl of Erroll, House of Lords (chair)
• Ross Anderson, Cambridge
• Ian Levy, GCHQ
• Julian Huppert, Cambridge
• Duncan Campbell, journalist

12.30 Lunch

13:30 Second panel – The war over our data: privacy in health and social care

• Onora O'Neill, Cambridge and House of Lords
• Eileen Munro, LSE
• Jen Persson, Defend Digital Me
• Sam Smith, MedConfidential
• Andreas von Heydwolff, psychiatrist
• Paul Whitehouse (chair)

15:00 Networking break – tea and coffee

15:30 Third panel – From personalised ads to personalised warfare?

• Wendy Grossman, journalist
• Anthony Finkelstein, UCL
• Bill Thompson, journalist
• Guy Herbert, campaigner
• Erich Möchel, journalist
• Ross Anderson, Cambridge (chair)

Organised by The Foundation for Information Policy Research

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