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Dear computer network researchers,

This message may be of inerest to those who live in 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 ICT professionals 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 network-researchers 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.

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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