Talk:From cybersecurity to terrorism – are we all under surveillance? – PL 03a 2016

This is the discussion and notes site of the session: Follow-up plenary 3: Surveillance, terrorism, anonymity

Notes from org. team meeting 2016-04-08

present: Mattias Bjärnemalm, Christian Borggreen

We agreed to the following format of the session:

Government surveillance, terrorism, anonymity

The session will be an interactive discussion with short interventions from speakers on the stage and in the audience. We will try to find facilitators that can be placed on stage who can keep the conversation going and involve the audience, while we will allow experts to do featured interventions from the floor rather than having a traditional panel format.

The session will feature interventions:

Law enforcement/national security expert: (Ideally a former official from an EU Member State) who can clarify real law enforcement/national security needs and debunk popular myths about surveillance, backdoors/encryption, etc.

Academic/expert who can highlight the most controversial surveillance laws in EU Member States.

Academic/court official/CoE expert who can give overview/status of ongoing court cases involving EU Member States surveillance laws. Main principles/controversies which may conflict with EU laws.

Business expert: Who can explain how services can be designed to enable anonymity, e.g. through strong encryption, and policy challenges in the EU.

Open discussion involving audience including civil society (majority of session time)

what still needs to be discussed

* who to invite to give interventions
* who to invite to facilitate the discussions
* should we have one long discussion or break it down into topics?