Written evidence submitted by Dr Ansgar Koene, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (IPB0066)

Koene, Ansgar

Abstract

Dr Ansgar Koene is a Senior Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research (http://www.horizon.ac.uk). Horizon is a Research Institute at The University of Nottingham and a Research Hub within the RCUK Digital Economy programme. Horizon brings together researchers from a broad range of disciplines to investigate how digital technology may enhance the way we live, work, play and travel in the future. Within Horizon, Dr. Koene has been working on the ESRC funded CaSMa (Citizen-centric approaches to Social Media analysis http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk) project which aims to promote ways for individuals to control their data and their desired level of privacy, including mechanisms that make it realistically possible to implement a withdrawal of consent. Indeed, one of the core CaSMa objectives is to ensure that social media users are aware of how their personal data can be used to understand human behaviour and the ethics of handling human data obtained from social media. ‘Citizen centric approaches’ refers to tools and methods that are sensitive to the personal nature of human data. Approaches that are ‘ethical by design’ with intrinsic transparency and dependence on explicit consent from the person who’s data is being analysed. Part of this work has included CPD seminars for SMEs, public engagement activities at the Web We Want festivals in 2015 http://webfoundation.org/our-work/projects/web-we-want/) and collaboration with the iRights (http://irights.uk) coalition.

• Other Type: Other
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Dec 14, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 5, 2021
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17639/hsgc-pp81
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5146573
• Related Public URLs: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmsctech/573/57302.htm
• Additional Information: Written evidence submitted to UK Parliament House of Commons Science & Technology Committee inquiry Investigatory Powers Bill: technology issues (see https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmsctech/573/57302.htm)