A high profile two day panel event will discuss issues of privacy in the UK, and examine our current legislation.
A leading investigative journalist, the former head of the 10 Downing Street Policy Unit and a leading public philosopher and crossbench peer will discuss these issues at a major public event at the University of Leeds this month. The speakers will discuss the importance of the UK's privacy laws, how the laws can be puzzling and how proposed changes to these regulations could affect democratic rights. The event takes place on 18 June and is the culmination of a two day academic meeting, The Conference on the Ethics of Privacy and Confidentiality, which runs 17 to 19 June at the University of Leeds. David Leigh of The Guardian and author of The Liar: Fall of Jonathan Aitken , is expected to talk about how protecting privacy runs the risk of criminalising the valuable activities of investigative journalists. Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and former Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and head of the 10 Downing Street Policy Unit, and Onora O'Neill, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge and author of A Question of Trust, are expected to speak about ideas of trust, public data and public welfare. Jamie Dow, research fellow in the Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Applied Ethics (IDEA CETL) at the University of Leeds, said: "Privacy is central to some of the most important issues facing our democracy and yet the public response to these issues seems inconsistent. We are hostile to journalistic intrusion, and yet place a high value placed on investigative journalism which arguably would be undermined by more stringent privacy laws.
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