[ecrea] DATA-PSST! event - Tackling Transparency Beyond the Nation-State

There are limited places and travel bursaries left at the next
DATA-PSST! <http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en> event (/Debating
and Assessing Transparency Arrangements – Privacy, Security,
Surveillance, Trust/). This seminar is on */Tackling Transparency Beyond
the Nation-State./*

This inter-disciplinary and multi-end user seminar will be held at
Cardiff University on 31 Mar 2016, 10-5pm.

If you’d like to participate, please mail Vian Bakir asap
((v.bakir /at/ bangor.ac.uk) <mailto:(v.bakir /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>). You will need to
provide a short Position Statement, that will we host on our blog
<http://data-psst.blogspot.co.uk/>. Places and travel bursaries will be
allocated according to strength of Position Statement and
under-represented positions.

The full seminar advert follows.

This is the fifth of six seminars in the ESRC-funded DATA-PSST! seminar
series.


Advanced technologies and the increased inter-connectedness of state and
private actors across borders allow for a constant flow of data around
the globe. This provides opportunities for law enforcement and
intelligence authorities to monitor terrorist suspects and criminals –
but also the ordinary citizen. In the context of counter-terrorism, this
kind of surveillance often also involves cooperation between states but
also with private enterprises, such as banks and other financial
authorities, as well as companies like Google and Facebook. Given the
cross-border and cross-sector nature of these practices, questions arise
about the utility of trying to regulate and control data-sharing at the
national level only. In addition, tensions emerge between expectations
of sovereign rights and responsibilities on one hand and regional and
global cooperation on the other hand. increasingly, regional actors,
such as the EU and the Council of Europe, and also the UN are involved
in regulating data-sharing, protecting privacy and challenging excessive
surveillance by security authorities. /This seminar will focus on the
ongoing attempts at the European and international level to regulate,
confine and oversee the global flow of information. /To do so, it brings
together scholars and practitioners of international relations,
political science, international law and human rights to examine key
debates, analyse strengths and weaknesses of existing mechanisms of
regulation and oversight and explore questions about which political
level is best suited to such a demanding mandate.


Some of the subsidiary questions that will frame this seminar include:

- How are concepts of borders, states and territory relevant in the
practice of safeguarding human rights online?

- What are the key regional and global mechanisms in place for
regulating data- sharing, protecting privacy and challenging excessive
surveillance by security authorities? How are these being adhered to,
negotiated and/or contested?

- What tensions have emerged in the UK and the EU in the context of
attempts to impose international controls on data-sharing and privacy
safeguards?

The seminar will be organized around these key questions and all
participants will be able to actively contribute to the debate. In
addition to short keynote talks, the seminar will function by means of
position statements and roundtable discussions.

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