Simon Davies (privacy advocate)

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Simon Davies is a privacy advocate and academic based in London, UK. He was one of the first campaigners in the field of international privacy advocacy, founding the watchdog organization Privacy International in 1990 and subsequently working in emerging areas of privacy such as electronic visual surveillance, identity systems, border security, encryption policy and biometrics.

[edit] Academic posts

Davies has been a Visiting Fellow in Law at both the University of Greenwich and the University of Essex, and is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow within the Department of Management of the London School of Economics (LSE)[1]. He is also co-director of the LSE’s Policy Engagement Network which is presently researching options for the process stage of the development of a new British constitution[2].

[edit] Awards

In April 1999, Davies received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Pioneer" award for his contribution to online freedom[3] and in 2007 was made a Fellow of the British Computer Society [1] In both 2004[4] and 2005[5] silicon.com voted him as one of the world’s 50 most influential people in technology policy.

[edit] References

  1. ^ London School of Economics Information Systems staff, URL accessed 23 Oct, 2006
  2. ^ Future Britain project, URL accessed 23 Oct, 2006
  3. ^ Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award Winners, URL accessed 23 Oct, 2006
  4. ^ silicon.com Agenda Setters 2004, URL accessed 23 Oct, 2006
  5. ^ silicon.com Agenda Setters 2005, URL accessed 23 Oct, 2006