Dr Brown’s research is focused on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy and copyright. He also works in the more technical fields of communications security and healthcare informatics. He is Principal Investigator of Privacy Value Networks and Towards a Future Internet; Co-Investigator of FRESNEL and Privacy Open Space; and on the advisory board of Integrated Mobile Security Kit. His research group includes Alissa Cooper, Mahmood Enayat, Fadhila Mazanderani, Anne-Marie Oostveen, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Wolf Richter, Túlio de Souza, Christian Wallenta and Joss Wright.
Since 1998 Dr Brown has variously been a trustee of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and an adviser to Greenpeace, the Refugee Children’s Consortium, Amnesty International and Creative Commons UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the International University of Japan and the British Computer Society, a senior member of the ACM, and has consulted for the US Department of Homeland Security, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Allianz, McAfee, BT, the BBC, the European Commission, the Cabinet Office, Ofcom, the National Audit Office and the Information Commissioner’s Office. Previous projects include PIMMS, CPOSS, CLEF, Fair Tracing, e-Curator and the Cambridge-MIT Institute’s Critical Infrastructure Protection working group.
Dr Brown’s work has been covered by the BBC, CNN, CBC and numerous newspapers and magazines. He has written for the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. In 2004 he was voted as one of the 100 most influential people in the development of the Internet in the UK over the previous decade.
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