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Name: Caspar
Family Name: Bowden
Affiliation: Microsoft EMEA
Personal web-site: www.microsoft.com/emea
Short BIO
Caspar Bowden leads the privacy pillar of the Trustworthy Computing initiative across Europe, Middle-East and Africa. His goal is to ensure that users of Microsoft products and services are in control of their personal data and that fair information practices are respected. He is a specialist in data protection policy, privacy enhancing technology research, identity management and authentication. He was formerly director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, an independent think-tank that studies the interaction between computers and society, and promotes public understanding and dialogue between UK and European civil society and policy-makers in the fields of e-commerce, copyright, law enforcement and national security, e-government, cryptography and digital signatures. He was appointed expert adviser to the UK parliament for the passage of three bills concerning privacy issues, and was co-organizer of the influential Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK encryption and surveillance policy. His previous career over two decades ranged from investment banking (proprietary trading risk-management for option arbitrage), to software engineering (graphics engines and cryptography), including work for Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM.
Title of the presentation
PROFILING AND TRANSPARENCY IN PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS: THE SEARCH FOR PROPORTIONALITY
Abstract
One of the most challenging issues of the information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems which may be used to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial and law enforcement purposes. The legal constraints on the collection and use of such data vary considerably across different privacy regimes, but in the EU are ultimately governed by the interpretation of the concepts of proportionality and necessity in human rights and Data Protection law. There are also empirical questions about whether data-mining techniques to extract economic value from profile data also may be applicable to public security and law enforcement scenarios. The social, technical, political, economic and legal implications of such technologies need to be addressed urgently, particularly in the context of the future agendas of ubiquitous (or pervasive) computing and law enforcement public security programs premised on the availability and utility of such data.
Moderated by Caspar BOWDEN (Chief Privacy Adviser, Microsoft Europe Middle-East and Africa)
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