Prof. Simon Gordon Davies (UK)
Director Privacy International / Computer Security Research Centre, London School of Economics
PARTICIPATIONS
World-InfoCon (Day 1)
Simon Davies is an expert in privacy security and data protection. He has worked in more than 20 countries on issues ranging from identity cards to military surveillance. He directs Privacy International, a non government organization based in Washington, D.C., that has members in more than 40 countries.
Davies is also the founder of the Big Brother Award, a price granted to oganizations and individuals for comitting particularly flagrant violations of the right to privacy. He is moreover a visiting fellow in the Computer Security Research Center of the London School of Economics and a visiting fellow of law in the University of Essex.
Davies has also been a consultant adviser to numerous government, professional and corporate bodies, including the British Medical Association, the United Kingdom Department of Social Security, the Ontario Privacy and Information Commissioner and Telecom Australia.
Publications
Privacy and Human Rights 1998: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments, by David Banisar and Simon Davies (1998)
Privacy and Human Rights 1999: An International Survey of Privacy Laws & Developments, by David Banisar, Simon Davies (1999)
Big Brother : Australia's Growing Web of Surveillance (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
Big Brother: Britain's Web of Surveillance and the New Technological Order (Pan Books, 1997)
Contributor: more than two dozen newspapers,journals and periodicals including the Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, Wired and The Independent.
Online
Privacy International
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Computer Security Research Center (London School of Economics)
http://csrc.lse.ac.uk