12th and 13th September 2018
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
CRISP Directors Professor Charles Raab and Professor William Webster will be speaking at the Institute of Philosophy’s symposium on ‘Privacy in the New Public Sphere, its Value and its Threats’.
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This conference will focus on the value of privacy in contemporary society, and the threats it...
Deadline for applications extended to Friday 30th March 2018
CRISP is proud to announce that applications can be submitted for its fourth biannual Doctoral Training School. The School takes place at the University of St Andrews from Monday 18– Friday 22 June 2018. The School will feature five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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Snowden revealed...
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...
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...
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.
