Ordering Disorder: Surveillance and Privacy in Crises
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 2021-06-08

This panel explores the scale of surveillance individuals are subjected to both voluntarily and involuntarily, especially given the new normal of working and socialising from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

They also look at the acceleration of digital surveillance, and how it has not only resulted in a precipitous decline in an individual's ability to seclude themselves but arguably a public decline in the embracing of privacy as a virtue.

Chair:
Berenice Burnett, a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies

Panellists:
Professor Didier Bigo, King’s College London and Sciences-Po Paris, whose current project, GUARDINT looks at oversight in intelligence networks

Sir David Omand, Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, previously he served as the inaugural UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, the Director of GCHQ, and as the Permanent Secretary of the Home Office

Abigail Wilson, King’s alumna and Cyber Threats Operation Manager for PwC specialising in technical and strategic threats emanating from the MENA region

Madeleine Stone, Legal and Policy Officer from Big Brother Watch, focusing on the impact of the emergency coronavirus powers on civil liberties with a focus on surveillance