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Talk in Oxford at 5pm today on the ethics and economics of privacy in a world of Big Data

Academic papers, Legal issues, Politics, Security economics, Security psychology, Seminars

Today at 5pm I’ll be giving the Bellwether Lecture at the Oxford Internet Institute. My topic is Big Conflicts: the ethics and economics of privacy in a world of Big Data. I’ll be discussing a recent Nuffield Bioethics Council report of which I was one of the authors. In it, we asked what medical ethics … Continue reading Talk in Oxford at 5pm today on the ethics and economics of privacy in a world of Big Data →

Largest ever civil government IT disaster

Academic papers, Awards, News coverage, Politics

Last year I taught a systems course to students on the university’s Masters of Public Policy course (this is like an MBA but for civil servants). For their project work, I divided them into teams of three or four and got them to write a case history of a public-sector IT project that went wrong. … Continue reading Largest ever civil government IT disaster →

European Association of Psychology and Law Conference 2014

Academic papers, Security psychology

The European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) annually organises a conference to bring together researchers and practitioners operating in a forensic context. Combining different disciplines, such as psychology, criminology and law leads to a multidisciplinary conference with presentations on topics like detecting deception, false memories, presenting forensic evidence in court, investigative interviewing, risk assessment, … Continue reading European Association of Psychology and Law Conference 2014 →

Latest health privacy scandal

Legal issues, News coverage, Politics, Privacy technology, Security economics

Today I gave a talk at the Open Data Institute on a catastrophic failure of anonymity in medical research. Here’s the audio and video, and here are the slides. Three weeks ago we made a formal complaint to the ICO about the Department of Health supplying a large amount of data to PA Consulting, who … Continue reading Latest health privacy scandal →

Health privacy: complaint to ICO

Legal issues, News coverage, Politics, Privacy technology, Security economics, Security psychology

Three NGOs have lodged a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner about the fact that PA Consulting uploaded over a decade of UK hospital records to a US-based cloud service. This appears to have involved serious breaches of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and of multiple NHS regulations about the security of personal health … Continue reading Health privacy: complaint to ICO →

NHS opt out: not what it seems

Legal issues, News coverage, Politics, Privacy technology

On January 23rd we had a conference call with the NHS Information Centre and a couple of its software suppliers about anonymisation. LBT readers will have followed how your GP records are to uploaded to the new central database care.data for resale unless you opt out. Any previous opt outs from other central systems like … Continue reading NHS opt out: not what it seems →

Opting out of the latest NHS data grab

Legal issues, News coverage, Politics, Security economics, Security psychology

The next three weeks will see a leaflet drop on over 20 million households. NHS England plans to start uploading your GP records in March or April to a central system, from which they will be sold to a wide range of medical and other research organisations. European data-protection and human-rights laws demand that we … Continue reading Opting out of the latest NHS data grab →