A post-election analysis of UK-US digital trade
Channel: OpenRightsGroup
Date: 2020-12-04

The incoming UK-US trade deal’s power to shape British life is vast. From agriculture and the environment to the NHS and workers’ rights, there is little the secretive agreement won’t touch – including our digital rights. 

With the smoke finally clearing from an explosive US presidential election, the time has come to consider its consequences for digital trade.

SPEAKERS 
Damian Collins is a Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe and served as chair of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee from 2016 – 2019 where he led inquiries into disinformation, fake news and addictive and immersive technologies. 

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British author, digital rights activist and journalist. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, and a founding member of ORG in 2005. 

Anna Fielder is the President of European Digital Rights (EDRi), which is the largest European network defending online rights and freedoms. Anna is also Chair Emeritus of Privacy International and Senior Policy Advisor to the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). 


Moderated by Open Rights Group Executive Director Jim Killock.