Time: Friday 05 February 2016, 09:30-17:00
Location: Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Speakers: Conor Gearty, Richard Clayton, Lorna Woods, Ross Anderson, Ian Walden, David Vincent, Nóra Ní Loideain, Sinead Connolly, David Runciman, Julian Huppert, John Naughton and others
Background
Britain’s laws on surveillance, interception of communications and other covert activities of the security and intelligence services are widely regarded as unsatisfactory and inadequate. The government has published a draft Investigatory Powers bill which aims to rectify this, by placing all the powers deemed necessary by the state under one statute. The draft bill has been widely discussed, and is currently being scrutinised by a Joint Committee of the Houses of Commons and Lords. Given the scope and extent of the legislation, and the torrent of comment that it has already attracted, it would be impossible to encompass all aspects of the draft bill in a single day, so we have selected five areas for consideration, in the hope that the resulting discussion can usefully be fed back into public debate and Parliamentary scrutiny of the legislation.
Programme
09:30 Registration and coffee
09:50: Welcome and introduction
10:00-11:30: Panel 1: Oversight and control
Chair: David Runciman
Speaker: Conor Gearty
11:30 COFFEE
11:45 – 13:00 Panel 2: Internet connection records
Chair: John Naughton
Speakers: Richard Clayton, Lorna Woods and Ray Corrigan
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30 Panel 3: Equipment Interference
Chair: Jat Singh
Speakers: Ross Anderson and Ian Walden
15:30: TEA
15:45-16:45 Panel 4: Proportionality and scope
Chair: David Erdos
Speakers: David Vincent, Nóra Ní Loideain & Andrew Murray
16:45- 17:30 Panel 5: Impositions on companies
Chair: Julia Powles
Speaker: Sinead Connolly
17:30-18:00 Roundup
Speakers: David Runciman, Julian Huppert and John Naughton
The symposium is open to all, but if you plan on attending please register because we need to estimate numbers for catering purposes.
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Professor John Naughton.
This talk is part of the Technology and Democracy Events series.
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