Past Events

Monday, April 30, 2018 - 15:30

Cybersecurity at Stirling: A Panel Presentation

This is a public event which is free of charge. Register a place via Eventbrite.

 

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The Industrial Strategy recognises that "the world is undergoing a technological revolution", with grand challenges in Artificial Intelligence set and a commitment of £20M to a Cyber Discovery Programme which aims to prepare and...

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 18:00 - Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 17:45

CRISP is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner, will deliver the CRISP Annual Lecture on Wednesday, 14th March 2018 in Lecture Theatre 1, Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, EH8 9LE. You are welcome to arrive at 6.00pm and the lecture will begin at 6.30pm.

Elizabeth Denham was appointed UK Information Commissioner in July 2016, having previously held...

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 18:00 - Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 19:45

CRISP is delighted to announce that it will be hosting a Question Time themed event on the future of surveillance cameras in the UK. The event is open to the general public and will take place in central London on 21st February 2018.

This event will follow the format of the BBC’s long running Question Time programme, it will be chaired by the BBC’s James Naughtie, and will give members...

Friday, January 26, 2018 - 11:45

CRISP will be hosting a panel on ‘Ethics, Rights and Data Management in the Digital Policing Revolution’ at the 2018 CPDP (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection) Conference in Brussels.

Full details of the conference can be found here.

Ethics, Rights and Data Management in the Digital Policing Revolution

Much has been made of the digital revolution and its seismic impact on...

Monday, December 4, 2017 - 16:30

On 4th December at 4.30 – 6pm , Tom Simpson, Associate Prof of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford will deliver a talk  'Freedom from Surveillance'.  The talk will be held in room 104  Edgecliffe, which is building number 43 on the campus map.  Please email Professor Katherine Hawley if you would like to attend. 

Abstract

Snowden revealed...

Monday, November 20, 2017 - 00:00 - Wednesday, November 22, 2017 - 23:45

Human flourishing is aided and hindered by surveillance systems. Religious ethics, directed towards an authentic way of life, have, therefore, a significant interest in how Big Data  and other surveillance strategies shape men and women. On the other hand, religious ethics may reflect the concerns of analogue societies rather than 21st century digital, networked communities.

This...

Thursday, November 16, 2017 - 18:30

Former Scottish Information Commissioner Rosemary Agnew will deliver the 2017 CRISP Annual Lecture.

Rosemary Agnew is currently the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, a post she took up on 1 May 2017.  She is better known to many of us as the (now former) Scottish Information Commissioner: a post she held for five years, from 2012.  Rosemary is committed to openness and transparency of...

Monday, November 13, 2017 - 14:00 - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - 15:45

CRISP Director, Professor William Webster, will be speaking at the 2017 MSC Global Security Conference in Bristol in November. The event will focus on developments in video surveillance camera policy and practice and Professor Webster's presentation will assess the deployment of Body-Worn Video cameras in public service contexts.  

Thursday, October 19, 2017 - 09:00 - Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 16:45

A Research Workshop of the Big Data Surveillance partnership project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. CRISP is a project partner in the Big Data Surveillance project.

Location: University of Ottawa

Security intelligence is in a state of flux.

New technological developments are challenging older ways of working, most notably the ubiquity...

Thursday, October 12, 2017 -
00:00 - 23:45

Professor William Webster will chair the Westminster Briefing event on 'CCTV and Surveillance Cameras: Implementing the National Strategy and Meeting Codes of Practice' taking place in London on 12th October 2017. The session will cover all aspects of the new UK Surveillance Camera Strategy recently published by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner.

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