The UK Government is consulting on an Investigatory Powers Bill. As our contrubution to this debate, a number of NGOs and academics are organising the tenth Scrambling for Safety conference in London on January 7th. The conference is open to the public, but all tickets are now sold; it will be streamed via the website of the Open Rights Group (which has a video of the event now the event is over).

The were nine previous Scrambling for Safety conferences organised while the UK government was considering the RIP Act and the regulations that followed it. The goal was, and is, to bring together different stakeholders interested in surveillance policy for an open exchange of views.

12:45 Registration

13:15 Welcome – Professor Jennifer Rubin

13:20 Introduction – Paul Strasburger, House of Lords

13:25 First panel – Interception and traffic data retention

• David Omand, ex-Director GCHQ and Kings College London
• Richard Clayton, Cambridge
• Gail Kent, ex-NCA and Facebook
• Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty
• Ross Anderson, Cambridge (chair)

14:30 Second panel – Equipment interference

• Chris Farrimond, National Crime Agency
• Caroline Wilson Palow, Privacy International
• Malcolm Hutty, LINX
• Antony Walker, TechUK
• Kier Starmer, MP
• Eric King, Don't Spy on Us (chair)

15:30 Networking break – tea and coffee

16:00 Remembering Caspar Bowden (starts at 2:10:20 in the video)

16:10 Third panel – Boundaries, transparency and oversight

• Jenny Jones, AM, House of Lords
• Sam Smith, MedConfidential
• Gordon Nardell QC, Bar Council
• Renate Samson, Big Brother Watch
• David Anderson QC, Independent reviewer of terrorism legislation
• Jim Killock, Open Rights Group (chair)

Organised by:

• Kings College London
• The Foundation for Information Policy Research
• The Open Rights Group
• Privacy International

Hashtag #SFS2016