Senior Research Fellow
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Privacy by Design

Regulators in the European Union, Canada and elsewhere have recently been promoting the idea of "privacy by design". This calls on technology companies to consider privacy issues much earlier in the development lifecycle, rather than post-deployment where retrospective privacy solutions are often clunky and expensive. This is clearly the case with implantable medical devices! In this talk I will describe the high-level principles of privacy by design and show how they are being applied in the related fields of sensor networks and smart energy grids.
 

About the speaker:

Ian Brown’s research is focused on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy and copyright. He also works in the more technical fields of communications security and healthcare informatics. He is Principal Investigator of Privacy Value Networks and Co-Investigator of FRESNEL, Integrated Mobile Security Kit and SUBITO. His research group includes Alissa Cooper, Mahmood Enayat, Fadhila Mazanderani, Anne-Marie Oostveen, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Túlio de Souza and Joss Wright.

Since 1998 Dr Brown has variously been a trustee of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and an adviser to Greenpeace, Consumer Focus, the Refugee Children’s Consortium, Amnesty International and Creative Commons UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the International University of Japan and the British Computer Society, a senior member of the ACM, and has consulted for the US Department of Homeland Security, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Allianz, McAfee, BT, EADS, the BBC, the European Commission, ENISA, OECD, the Cabinet Office, Ofcom, the National Audit Office and the Information Commissioner’s Office. Previous projects include PIMMS, CPOSS, CLEF, Fair Tracing, e-Curator, Privacy Open Space, Towards a Future Internet and the Cambridge-MIT Institute’s Critical Infrastructure Protection working group.

Dr Brown’s work has been covered by the BBC, CNN, CBC and numerous newspapers and magazines. He has written for the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. In 2004 he was voted as one of the 100 most influential people in the development of the Internet in the UK over the previous decade.