Dear members of AI-SGES,
This message may be of interest to those who are in and around London.
The University of Westminster is currently involved in the European
Union research project PACT (see http://www.projectpact.eu) that studies
privacy and security in Europe. Since Edward Snowden’s revelations,
there have been a lot of discussions about privacy and surveillance in
Europe.
Given all the discussions about privacy and surveillance, ICT experts
are often asked what can best be done to guarantee privacy and data
protection for users. They are confronted with many questions about data
use by their clients, customers, friends, users, and the public.
PACT has developed a new method that makes it easier to answer which
advantages and disadvantages information technologies pose in respect to
personal data, privacy, and surveillance.
We invite experts to participate in a test and assessment of this new
method in the form of a focus group-discussion and we would be very
happy to have some computer scientists participating.
There are two available dates when the tests of the new privacy
assessment methodology takes place in the form of a focus group discussion:
Monday, September 8, 2014: 13:00-15:30
Tuesday, September 9, 2014: 13:00-15:30
Location: Central London
If you are interested to join on one of these two dates, then please get
in touch with me.
Further information is also available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhmjb0jhrmalmvh/Information%20Sheet.pdf?dl=0
If this sounds interesting, then I’d be happy to hear back from you.
Please feel also free to forward this message to people you think may be
interested in participating.
Best, Christian Fuchs
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Christian Fuchs
Professor of Social Media
University of Westminster
Communication and Media Research Institute,
Centre for Social Media Research
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/csmr
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