Wednesday 8th September 2010 1.06am
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Jill Williamson
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Post your Events Keeping It Private – Online
Sunderland City Council has teamed up with a group of academic researchers to put on an exciting interactive event aimed at hearing people’s views on online privacy.
The event, which is free to attend, is being held on the 13th March at 10.30am and 12.30pm at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. It forms part of the nationwide Festival of Social Science which is run by the Economic and Social Research Council – the leading funder of social science research in the UK - and is intended to help the general public discover more about the world of social science.
The Winter gardens event begins with a mime about a case of mistaken identity online and the privacy implications that ensue from it. This leads into an audience discussion which uses a multi-media presentation to find out their views about giving out personal information online, not just, for instance, when shopping but also when using social media such as Facebook.
The event will be showcasing the Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression (VOME) research project which is seeking to raise awareness about online privacy issues.
Conn Crawford, Strategic Projects Officer in the ICt unit at Sunderland City Council comments
"This is an important event as it will give people the opportunity to better understand how issues of privacy and consent can affect everyone in their use of online services. Sunderland Council is committed to learn from the event and to continue to improve the quality of services in the city"
The event is being staged by Sunderland City Council and VOME which, in addition to the Council involves researchers from Information Security Group (Royal Holloway, University of London,) Salford and Cranfield Universities the Consult Hyperion privacy consultancy, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
VOME aims to produce methods and tools for negotiating and engaging with privacy and consent. These tools could help service users define, agree and check levels of privacy when using the Internet and might help service providers respond more effectively to the service users’ on-line policy concerns.
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