Dr Ian Brown
Senior Research Fellow, January 2009 -
Research Fellow, July 2007 - December 2008
Dr Brown's research is focused on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy, copyright and e-democracy. He also works in the more technical fields of information security, networked systems and healthcare informatics. He is Principal Investigator of Privacy Value Networks and Towards a Future Internet; Co-Investigator of Fair Tracing, Privacy Open Space, e-Curator, Mapping the Database State and Future Data Protection; and on the ethics board of Virtual Organisations for Trials and Epidemiological Studies (VOTES). His research group includes Mahmood Enayat, Fadhila Mazanderani, Anne-Marie Oostveen, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Wolf Richter and Christian Wallenta.
Since 1998 Dr Brown has variously been a director of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and an adviser to Greenpeace, 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 Association for Computing Machinery (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, the National Audit Office and the Information Commissioner's Office. Previously he worked on the Pilot Interactive Mobile Multimedia System (PIMMS), Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State (CPOSS) and CLEF (Integrating Information for the clinical e-Scientist) projects and ran 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. 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.
A full list of pre-2007 articles is available from UCL.
Email: firstname.lastname at oii.ox.ac.uk
Blog: Blogzilla
Research interests
privacy, copyright, e-democracy, information security, networking, healthcare informatics
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Selected publications
- Adams, A. and Brown, I. (2009) Keep Looking: The Answer to the Machine is Elsewhere. Computers & Law.
- Brown, I. (2009) Regulation of Converged Communications Surveillance. In: B.Goold and D.Neyland (eds) New Directions in Privacy and Surveillance, Exeter: Willan, pp. 39-73.
- Brown, I. and Korff, D. (2009) Terrorism and the Proportionality of Internet Surveillance. European Journal of Criminology 6(2) 119-134.
- Edwards, L. and Brown, I. (2009) Data Control and Social Networking: Irreconcilable Ideas? In: A.Matwyshyn (ed.) Harboring Data: Information Security, Law and the Corporation. Stanford University Press.
- Brown, I. (2009) Privacy is paramount. UK Health Informatics Today.
- Brown, I. (2008) Internet filtering - be careful what you ask for. In: S.Kirca and L.Hanson (eds) Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture. Istanbul: Bahcesehir University Press, pp. 74-91. ISBN: 978-975-6437-81-0
- Robson, S., Brown, I., Hess, M., MacDonald, S., Ong, Y.-H., Millar, F. and Were, G. (2008) Traceable storage and transmission of 3D colour scan data sets. Proc. Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Cyprus.
- Millar, F., Were, G., Brown, I., Hess, M., MacDonald, S., Robson, S. and Ong, Y.-H. (2008) 3D Colour Scans for Object Assessment. Proc. Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond, London.
- Wallenta, C., Ahmed, M., Brown, I., Hailes, S. and Huici, F. (2008) We know what you did at 9am - analysis of systems with dynamic user-generated content. Proc. Multi-Service Networks, Abingdon.
- Brown, I. (2008) Trust in Online Communities. Proc. International Conference on Information Culture, Seoul, pp. 236-253.
- Marsden, C., Simmons, S., Brown, I., Woods, L., Peake, A., Robinson, N., Hoorens, S. and Klautzer, L. (2008) Options for and Effectiveness of Self-regulation in the Information Society. European Commission DG Information Society and Media.
- Marsh, S., Brown, I. and Khaki, F. (2008) Privacy Engineering. Cybersecurity Knowledge Transfer Network white paper.
- Kitcat, J. and Brown, I. (2008) Observing the English and Scottish 2007 e-elections. Parliamentary Affairs 61(2) 380-395. ISSN: 0031-2290.
- Brown, I. and Adams, A.A. (2007) The ethical challenges of ubiquitous healthcare (pdf, 85kb). International Review of Information Ethics 8: 53-60. ISSN: 1614-1687.
- Brown, I. and Marsden, C. (2007) Co-regulating Internet Security: The London Action Plan (pdf 1.1Mb). Global Internet Governance Academic Network Second Annual Symposium, Rio de Janeiro.
- Brown, I. (2007) The law and economics of cybersecurity (pdf, 110kb) (eds Mark F. Grady and Francesco Parisi). Law Quarterly Review 123: 172-175. ISSN: 0023-933X
