Lodge Juliet

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• e-Security and National Parliaments: Digitised Citizens and Accountability

  6 May 2009
  This paper provides an overview of some key documents relating to the highly controversial subject of digitising citizens through the introduction of identity cards and biometric passports.

• E-security and National Parliaments

  6 May 2009
  National parliaments’ and the European Parliament’s powers vis-à-vis pillar III and related matters of judicial, police and migration cooperation have been progressively augmented. The draft Reform Treaty constitutionalises further reinforcement especially of (i) the European Parliament’s control powers, and (ii) the time granted for deliberation to national parliaments in respect of EU draft legislation.

• Accountable and transparent e-security - the case of British (in)security, borders and biometrics

  22 April 2009
  This paper examines the British approach to using biometrics for ‘security’ and verification of identity purposes. It begins by outlining the Government’s roll-out of biometric ID documents, examines some of the criticisms of the Information Commissioner, and scrutinizes the use of biometrics in schools. It concludes that technologies for security exacerbate insecurities and that digi-governance requires a rethink if informed consent, accountability and legal remedies are to be credible.

• Interview data

  22 April 2009
  This document explains why interview data is not accessible to the public.

• Accountable and transparent e-security : Austria – a role model for the EU ?

  22 April 2009
  This paper explores the adoption of ICTs for the administration of government. It focuses on the way in which Austria, a European champion in ICT roll-out, communicated the purposes of ICT enabled administration using e-identification for citizens and how this differs substantially from that of the (in)security discourses in the UK. The emphasis on credible trust, interoperability and accountability. The paper argues that the impact on government and citizens of using ICT administration for different, potentially linked purposes is risky as well as beneficial and requires deep security built-into the systems.

• Practitioners and end-users on Security and borders: realizing the common consular space

  21 April 2009
  This document sets out the main objectives of meetings and consultations with end-users of ICT enabled applications for border control and information sharing within administrations in one state, within public-private partnerships and across state borders. Particular attention is paid to issues of fraud, data misuse, and the roll-out of a common consular space.

• eborders Consultative Meeting on European Cross-Border Collaboration

  21 April 2009
  This document summarises a meeting where Challenge was presented to the financial sector primarily concerned with combating fraud by promoting cooperation in a regional setting across agencies that do not normally easily share information within their own organizations, across organizations in the region, or with counterpart organisations in other EU member states. It showed that there was a lot to be learned from information sharing and from accessing the kind of analyses produced by Challenge researchers to inform policy and initiatives being taken on the ground to give effect to government/EU policy.

• Transparency and Mobility beyond Borders

  21 April 2009
  This document provides an overview of an innovative meeting with EU ambassadors to discuss aspects of border management in the EU as the prospect of creating a common consular space and sharing some visa services becomes a reality.

• German constitutional challenge on Data Retention

  22 April 2008
  The complaint challenging the German data retention law in front of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has become the biggest constitutional case in German history with the submission of more than 34000 signatures backing up the action. The Working Group on Data Retention has also prepared an amicus curiae brief that it wants to submit to the European Court of Justice in the case Ireland vs. the Data Retention Directive and that can be signed by other NGOs.

• A question of identity becomes a matter of freedom

  24 December 2007
  The way in which biometric information and especially digitised data can be transmitted across borders without the explicit consent or knowledge of the data subject , the risks of outsourcing and inadequate accountability mechanisms and security architectures for public-private partnerships are examined and criticised in this press article by Juliet Lodge for Challenge

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