Internet Surveillance Policy: "...the second time as farce?" - A Public Lecture by Caspar BowdenThe Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, invites you to a public lecture by Caspar Bowden*, the Chief Privacy Adviser of Microsoft's Worldwide Technology Office, on Internet Surveillance Policy: "...the second time as farce?AbstractIn 2000, as Director of the independent think-tank, "Foundation for Information Policy Research", Caspar led a campaign to revise several aspects of a new comprehensive UK law governing electronic surveillance ("the RIP Act"). UK legislated in this area many years before most other countries, and the approach was widely criticized although some amendments…
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