On Thursday 27 September, Sir David Omand GCB, former head of GCHQ, will explore some of the key ethical and technical issues relating to data security we face today, in an event chaired by Lord Davidson QC, former Advocate General
Lord Davidson QC, former Advocate General; Sir David Omand GCB, former head of GCHQ. Picture of Lord Davidson by Chris McAndrew
Overview
Book your place on the event at the Universityof Edinburgh Business School Sir David Omand was previously UK security and intelligence coordinator, Permanent Secretary of the UK Home Office and director of GCHQ. In a particularly timely new book published by Oxford and Princeton University Presses, Principled spying: the ethics of secret intelligence, he goes deep behind today’s headlines – on spies, and on data security – to probe some of the key ethical and technical issues we face today.
Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance between necessary intelligence and data-gathering activities and protecting democratic values by developing a new framework of ethics.
Sir David will be joined by a panel of cyber experts from RBS and the University of Edinburgh Business School after his talk to discuss the issues raised with the audience.
Chairman: Lord Davidson of Glen Clova QC
Speakers: Sir David Omand GCB; visiting professor; King’s College, University of London; and former director of GCHQ
Kevin Murphy: cyber security, risk, privacy & fraud specialist; Royal Bank of Scotland
Dr Kami Vaniea: lecturer in cyber security and privacy; assistant director of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research; University of Edinburgh
This event is being held in conjunction with the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and jointly hosted with the CISI and Chartered Banker Institute.
Registration and coffee from 6pm. The event will run from 6.30pm–8pm, and will be followed by a networking drinks reception.