Public meeting on RIPA consultations

We've finally sorted out the details of the eighth Scrambling for Safety meeting on the Home Office access to keys and communications data code of practice consultations. It is being held from 2-5pm on Monday 14 August 2006, at the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London WC1 [campus map].

Admission is free but space is limited, so if you wish to attend please subscribe to the meeting mailing list. Please e-mail sfs8@fipr.org with requests for any other information.

The agenda is as follows:

1400	Welcome	Dr Ian Brown, UCL Computer Science
1405	The Home Office consultations	Simon Watkin, Home Office
1420	Government access to communications data	Dr Richard Clayton, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory
1435	Government access to decryption keys	Caspar Bowden, ex-director, FIPR
1450	Questions
1505	Risks to safety and security	Dr Brian Gladman, MoD and NATO (retired)
1520	Errors of judgment and integrity in presenting computer-based evidence	Duncan Campbell, expert witness and investigative journalist
1545	Parliamentary scrutiny of RIPA and its Orders	The Earl of Erroll, House of Lords (crossbencher)
1600	Questions
1615	Compatibility with human rights law	Prof. Douwe Korff, London Metropolitan University
1630	Do the police need longer detention periods to investigate encrypted evidence?	Prof. Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory
1645	The changing public mood on privacy	Lord Phillips of Sudbury, House of Lords (Liberal Democrat)
1655	Questions and conclusions	Simon Davies, Privacy International and LSE
1700	Close

Useful background information is at Privacy International's wiretap page and FIPR's "Surveillance and security" pages.