Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance

The Royal Academy of Engineering published its report in March 2007 on the future of surveillance technologies and their social impact.

• Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance report (830KB).

The Security of Personal Information

On July 18th 2007 The Royal Academy of Engineering held a briefing on the security of personal information. The presentations given at that briefing are available below. A transcript of the briefing will be available shortly.

• Event programme (48KB)

• Dr Kirstie Ball: Living in the Surveillance Society (856KB)

• Dr Martyn Thomas FREng: Can personal information be held securely? (265KB)

• David Birch: Connection and Disconnection: The Technology Roadmap (2834KB)

• Tom Ilube: Protecting Consumers’ Privacy (1609KB)

For further information contact Natasha McCarthy

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