22 July 2006

Foundation for Information Policy Research  http://www.fipr.org

Scrambling for Safety 8

WHAT:   An open meeting on the Home Office access to keys and
        communications code of practice consultations.

WHEN:   2-5pm, Monday 14 August 2006.

WHERE:  The Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Wing, UCL,
        Gower St, London WC1.
        http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps/campus_2006_screen

Admission is free but space is limited, so if you wish to attend please
subscribe to the meeting mailing list at
https://mailman.aldigital.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/sfs8

Please e-mail sfs8@fipr.org with requests for any other information.

PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS FLYER UNTIL 14 AUG 2006.
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The UK Home Office is currently consulting over plans to give the police
powers to require the production of decryption keys and of plaintext.
They have also produced a draft code of practice on government access to
"communications data" -- phone numbers and e-mail addresses contacted,
web sites visited, locations of mobile phones, etc.

What impact will this have on privacy and security in the UK? Could you
go to jail for forgetting your password? Who in the 500+ agencies with
access to communications data will be looking at records of your
Internet and phone use? Will organisations with highly sensitive
cryptographic keys (such as financial institutions) move their
operations offshore?

"Scrambling for Safety 8" will bring together representatives from
government, industry and human rights organisations to discuss these
consultations with interested members of the public. This is the only
such meeting during the consultation period, and is free to attend.
Come along and make sure your voice is heard!

Agenda
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1400 Welcome Dr Ian Brown, UCL Computer
Science

1405 The Home Office Simon Watkin, Home Office
consultations

1420 Government access to Dr Richard Clayton, Cambridge
communications data University Computer Laboratory

1435 Government access to Caspar Bowden, ex-director,
decryption keys   FIPR


1450 Questions

1505 Risks to safety and Dr Brian Gladman, MoD and
security NATO (retired)

1520 Errors of judgment and Duncan Campbell, expert witness
integrity in presenting and investigative journalist
computer-based evidence

1545 Parliamentary scrutiny of The Earl of Erroll, House of
RIPA and its Orders Lords (crossbencher)

1600 Questions

1615 Compatibility with human Prof. Douwe Korff, London
rights law Metropolitan University

1630 Do the police need longer Prof. Ross Anderson, Cambridge
detention periods to University Computer Lab
investigate encrypted
evidence?

1645 The changing public mood Lord Phillips of Sudbury, House
on privacy of Lords (Liberal Democrat)

1655 Questions and conclusions Simon Davies, Privacy
International and LSE

1700 Close

Background
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The Home Office consultation documents are at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2006-ripa-part3/ (access to
keys)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2006-ripa-part1/(communications
data code of practice)

Privacy International's wiretap page is at:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/countries/uk/surveillance/

FIPR's "Surveillance and security" pages are at:
http://www.fipr.org/surveillance.html
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