A working paper from Professor Lilian Edwards and me is now  online at SSRN.com. It is titled: “Privacy in Public Spaces: What Expectations of Privacy Do We Have in Social Media Intelligence?” This paper has developed over time, drawing on a range of things, from my earlier LL.M work on state surveillance of social media to a…

Just a quick note on progress with the privacy ideation cards. We are extending the work from our 2015 CHI paper “Playing the Legal Card” (Tom Rodden, Ewa Luger, Mike Golembewski and me) in both the UK/Europe and the US. On the European side, we will conduct studies in both industry and education contexts to further develop the concept…

I ran a DENS Sponsored workshop with fellow Horizon CDT researcher Dimitri Darzentas last week called “Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Values”. It was looking at using digital games to explore human values. Below is a summary of the event and the paper that is now live on ACM Digital Library. Thanks to everyone who…

The programme for Gikii 2015 went live recently and I thought I’d share it here. Sadly, I’m not going along this year, but I have gone every year since 2011 and it is a great conference. It looks at links between law, geek culture and technology in very creative ways, peppered with many lolcats and with a fun…

This week I’ve been down in Leicester for Ethicomp 2015, the 20th Anniversary of the conference started back in 1995 by Simon Rogerson and Terry Bynum. It was a very friendly community with some great talks. The keynotes were very interesting, with presentations from Lynne Markus on “Computer Ethics in the Organisation: Pitfalls and Prospects for Corporate Data Responsibility”; Robin…

Our workshop “Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values” at CHIPlay 2015 has accepted all abstracts for presenters on the day. However, we are still looking for non-presenting participants who are interested in coming along to join in discussions on the day. We are particularly interested in getting participants from across the RCUK DENS community so…

This is a short one but I include it because of the rather nice accompanying poster which I spent many hours crafting with a graphics tablet and Adobe Illustrator. It is from Gikii 2013 down in Bournemouth. There is another dormant full paper for this one waiting to get some TLC. It looks at the regulatory implications…

Back in early 2014 I co-presented a paper with Professor Lilian Edwards at the 6th  Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference in Barcelona. This was based on work from my LL.M thesis and was titled “Is Police Surveillance of Online Social Media Out Of Control? A UK Legal Perspective”. We have a journal version of this work…

I thought I might start adding some of my past academic conference presentations on here instead of them just gathering digital dust on my hard drive. The first one is the most comprehensive presentation I made for my work on drones, privacy and data protection. The presentation was made for last summer’s SCL  Technology Law Futures Forum in…

I’m running a 1/2 day workshop with Dimitri Darzentas from Horizon/MRL “Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values” at CHIPlay 2015 on 4th October in London.Below is the CfP and please head over to the website www.gamesandvalues.com for more details 🙂 Call for Participation We are holding a half day multidisciplinary workshop at ACM CHI Play 2015…