Academics Against Mass Surveillance
Last summer it was revealed, largely thanks to Edward Snowden, that American and European intelligence services are engaging in mass surveillance of hundreds of millions of people.
Intelligence agencies monitor people’s Internet use, obtain their phone calls, email messages, Facebook entries, financial details, and much more. Agencies have also gathered personal information by accessing the internal data flows of firms such as Google and Yahoo. Skype calls are “readily available” for interception. Agencies have purposefully weakened encryption standards – the same techniques that should protect our online banking and our medical files. These are just a few examples from recent press reports. In sum: the world is under an unprecedented level of surveillance.
This has to stop.
The right to privacy is a fundamental right. It is protected by international treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. Without privacy people cannot freely express their opinions or seek and receive information. Moreover, mass surveillance turns the presumption of innocence into a presumption of guilt. Nobody denies the importance of protecting national security, public safety, or the detection of crime. But current secret and unfettered surveillance practices violate fundamental rights and the rule of law, and undermine democracy.
The signatories of this declaration call upon nation states to take action. Intelligence agencies must be subjected to transparency and accountability. People must be free from blanket mass surveillance conducted by intelligence agencies from their own or foreign countries. States must effectively protect everyone’s fundamental rights and freedoms, and particularly everyone’s privacy.
January 2014
Signatories
If you are an academic and you would like to sign the declaration, please email us at
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AUSTRALIA
Roy Baker (Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University)
Angela Daly (Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology)
Andrew Roberts (Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University)
Ingo Petzke (Emeritus Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Wuerzburg; Adjunct Professor, James Cook University Australia)
AUSTRIA
Leonhard Grill (Professor for Physical Chemistry, University of Graz)
Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Associate Professor, Vienna University of Technology)
Antonius Kies (Project Assistant, Institute for ICE and Thermodynamics, TU Graz)
Sarah Spiekermann (Professor for Information Systems, Vienna University of Economics and Business)
BELGIUM
Ludo Abicht (Professor Department of International Relations, University of Antwerp)
Daniel de Beer (Researcher, Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Rosamunde van Brakel (PhD researcher Surveillance Studies and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Eva Brems (Professor Human Rights Centre, Ghent University)
Jenneke Christiaens (Professor of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Laurence Claeys (Associate Professor of Communication Sciences, Free University Brussels)
Eric Corijn (Professor Social and Cultural Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Tom Daems (Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology of Law, Ghent University)
Jonas Degrave (Ph.D Researcher, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University)
Marie-Sophie Devresse (Professor of Law, Université catholique de Louvain)
Claudia Diaz (Assistant Professor Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography, KU Leuven)
Els Dumortier (Professor Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Veerle Draulans (Associate Professor, KU Leuven)
Daniel de Beer (Researcher, Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Gloria Gonzalez Fuster (Researcher, Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Serge Gutwirth (Professor of Human Rights, Comparative law, Legal Theory and Methodology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Paul de Hert (Professor, Criminal Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Diete Humblet (Ph.D Researcher, Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Dan Kaminski (Professor of Criminology, Université catholique de Louvain)
Joachim Koops (Professor of International Affairs, Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Margo de Koster (Professor of Historical Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Laurens Lavrysen (Ph.D Researcher, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University)
Hans Lammerant (Researcher, Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Koen Lefever (Lecturer at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Philippe Mary (Professor of Criminology, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Saïla Ouald Chaib (Ph.D researcher, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University)
Paul Ponsaers (Emeritus Professor, Ghent University)
Yves Poullet (Professor of Law, University of Namur)
Bart Preneel (Professor of Information Security, KU Leuven)
Bertrand Renard (Visiting Professor, Law and Criminology, Université catholique de Louvain)
Herwig Reynaert (Professor & Dean, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University)
Antoinette Rouvroy (FNRS Research Associate, Research Centre Information, Law and Society, University of Namur)
Bart de Schutter (Emeritus Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Olivier de Schutter (Professor, Université catholique de Louvain)
Anne-Lise Sibony (Professor of European Law, University of Liége)
Laurent de Sutter (FWO Senior Researcher, Free University Brussels; Visiting Honorary Research Scholar, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
Peggy Valcke (Professor in Law, KU Leuven)
Antoinette Verhage (Postdoc Researcher, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology; Director Institute for Urban Security & Policing Studies, Ghent University)
Gert Vermeulen (Professor of International and European criminal law, Ghent University)
Dirk Voorhoof (Professor of Media Law, Ghent University)
Isabelle Wattier (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Université catholique de Louvain)
David Wright (Managing Partner, Trilateral Research, London; Researcher, Free University Brussels)
CANADA
Jennifer Barrigar (Professor, Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University)
Colin Benett (Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria)
Greg Elmer (Professor of Media, Ryerson University)
David Lyon (Professor, Queen’s Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Queen’s University)
Heather Morrison (Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa)
David Murakami Wood (Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University)
Robert Park (Professor and Associate Dean of Arts, Computing, University of Waterloo)
Valerie Steeves (Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa)
Roel Vertegaal (Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Queen’s University)
CHILE
Michael Fellhauer (Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Concepcion)
DENMARK
Peter Blume (Professor of Data Protection Law, University of Copenhagen)
Thomas Heimburg (Associate Professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Carsten Bagge Laustsen (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University)
Anna Leander (Professor (MSO), Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School)
Wouter De Tavernier (PhD researcher, Department of Political Science, Aalborg University)
FINLAND
Kai Kimppa (Post-Doctoral Researcher of IT and Ethics Turku School of Economics, University of Turku)
FRANCE
Alberto Alemanno (Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Risk Regulation, HEC Paris; Global Clinical Professor, New York University)
Emma Bell (Senior Lecturer, University of Savoie)
Didier Bigo (Director of the Centre d’ etudes sur les Conflits, la Liberté, la Sécurité; Professor Department of War Studies King’s College London; Research professor (MCU) Sciences Po Paris)
Roberto Di Cosmo (Professor of Computer Science, University Paris Diderot)
Paul Egré (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University)
Rafael Munagorri (Professor of Law, Université de Nantes)
Gloria Origgi (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique and EHESS, Paris)
Philippe Schlenker (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University)
Anastassia Tsoukala (Associate Professor Criminology, University of Paris XI)
GERMANY
Marion Albers (Professor of Public Law, Information and Communication Law, Health law and Theory of Law, Hamburg University)
Ulrich Beck (Professor of Sociology, University of Munich and London School of Economics)
Maria Beimborn (International Center for Ethics in Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen)
Christian Berndt (Professor of Marine Geophysics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel)
Roland Bless (Associate Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Ralf Bieber (Researcher, Ruprecht-Karls-University)
Franziska Boehm (Assistant Professor for IT-Law, University of Münster)
Rainer Böhme (Professor of IT Security, University of Münster)
Steffen Burkhardt (Professor of Media and Cultural Theory, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
Morton Canty (Research Scientist, Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, Juelich Research Center)
Wolfgang Coy (Professor of Informatics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Gerhard Dannemann (Professor, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Jens Dittrich (Professor of Computer Science: Data Management and Big Data; Saarland University)
Michael Friedewald (Head of ICT Research Unit, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research)
Klaus David (Professor, Chair for Communication Technology, University of Kassel)
Markus Deimann (Assistant Professor, FernUniversität in Hagen)
Jeroen Dickschat (Professor of Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Braunschweig)
Mareike Foecking (Professor of Photography, Fachhochschule Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Christoph Gossing (Research Assistant, Universität Trier)
Samuel Greef (Postdoc Researcher, University of Kassel)
Axel Groenemeyer (Professor Theorie und Empirie der Sozialpädagogik, Dortmund University)
Christian Grothoff (Emmy-Noether Research Group Leader, TU Munich)
Krista Grothoff (Researcher, Technical University of Munich)
Jessica Heesen (Research Associate, Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen)
Petra Hiller (Professor of Organization and Governance, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences)
Thomas Hoeren (Professor of Information, Media and Business Law, University of Münster)
Werner Janjic (Research & Teaching Assistant, Software-Engineering Group, University of Mannheim)
Christian Joerges (Professor of Law and Society, Hertie School of Governance; Research Professor, University of Bremen, Centre of European Law and Politics)
Hans Joosten (Professor of Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald)
Jochen Kerdels (Researcher, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Hagen)
Guenter Koehnken (Professor of Psychology, University of Kiel)
Katrin Kämpf (Research Assistant, Media Studies, University of Paderborn)
Johannes Kaspar (Professor of Criminal Law, University of Augsburg)
Wolfgang Kilian (Professor Emeritus for Legal Informatics, Legal Theory and Civil Law, Leibniz-University Hanover)
Christian Klinke (Heisenberg scholar, University of Hamburg)
Jan Krämer (Associate Professor; Head of Research Group Telecommunications Markets, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Peter Lampe (Professor of Theology, University of Heidelberg)
Thomas Lemke (Professor of Sociology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Kai von Lewinski (Associate Professor (Privatdozent), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Daniel Loick (Philosopher, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Alexander May (Professor of Cryptology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Franz Mayer (Professor, Chair of Public Law, European Law, Comparative Law, Law and Politics, University of Bielefeld)
Maximilian Mayer (Senior Fellow, Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn)
Thomas Meier (Professor of Pre- and Protohistory, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg)
Axel Metzger (Professor of Civil Law, Intellectual Property, Information Technology Law and Private International Law, University of Hanover)
Thomas Mittmann (Professor, Institute for Physiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz)
Wolfgang Mueller (Professor, Department of Media Education and Visualization, University of Education Weingarten)
Christof Paar (Professor, Chair for Embedded Security, Ruhr University Bochum)
Günther Pernul (Professor for Information Systems, Universität Regensburg)
Benjamin Rampp (Research Associate, Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen)
Kai Rannenberg (Professor Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Aljoscha Rheinwalt (Ph.D Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Theo Röhle (Research Associate, Braunschweig University of Art)
Alexander Rossnagel (Professor of Public Law, University of Kassel)
Jens Schade (Researcher, Dresden University of Technology)
Heidi Schäfer (Fellow at the International Centre of Ethics in The Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen)
Sebastian Schelter (Ph.D Researcher, Database Systems and Information Management Group, Technische Universität Berlin)
Karin Schermelleh-Engel (Professor of Psychology, Goethe University)
Britta Schinzel (Professor of Informatics and Society, University of Freiburg)
Henrike Schmidt (Private Lecturer, Freie Universität Berlin)
Thomas Schmitz (Professor of Philosophy, University of Bonn)
Heinz Schweppe (Professor em. of Databases and Information Systems, Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Matthias Selbach (Professor of Proteomics, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin)
Werner Sobek (Professor and Chair for Lightweight Structures, Stuttgart University, Germany)
Christoph Sorge (Juniorprofessor at the Computer Science Department, University of Paderborn)
Indra Spiecker (Professor of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Elly Spijkerman (Researcher, University of Potsdam)
Titus Stahl (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Fritz Strack (Professor of Psychology, University of Würzburg)
Thorsten Strufe (Professor for Peer-to-Peer Networks, TU Darmstadt)
Gerd Stumme (Professor of Computer Science, Universität Kassel)
Niels Taubert (Researcher, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities)
Gunther Teubner (Professor of Law and Legal Sociology, Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Michael Waidner (Professor for Security in Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt; Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology)
Jutta Weber (Professor for Media Studies, University of Paderborn)
Jan Wehrheim (Institut für Soziale Arbeit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Matthias Werner (Professor of Computer Science, TU Chemnitz)
Heinrich Amadeus Wolff (Professor of Public Law, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder)
Kai Wulff (Assistant Professor, Institute for Automation and Systems Engineering, Technische Universität Ilmenau)
Gregor Wurst (Professor of Church History, with special regards to the Ancient Church and Patristics, University of Augsburg)
Nils Zurawski (Professor of Criminology, Universität Hamburg)
GREECE
Maria Bottis (Assistant Professor, Ionian University)
George Katrougalos (Professor of Public Law, Demokritos University)
Minas Samatas (Professor of Political Sociology, University of Crete)
HONG KONG
Marcelo Thompson (Assistant Professor of Law, Hong Kong University)
HUNGARY
Majtényi László (Professor for Information and Media Law, University of Miskolc)
Katalin Parti (Senior Researcher, National Institute of Criminology, Budapest)
Ivan Szekely (Research Professor, Open Society Archives at Central European University and Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
IRELAND
Tom Felle (Lecturer in Journalism, University of Limerick)
Paddy Hillyard (Professor Emeritus Queen’s University, Belfast)
TJ McIntyre (Lecturer in Law, University College Dublin)
ISRAEL
Michael Birnhack (Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University)
ITALY
Giusella Finocchiaro (Professor of Internet Law and Private Law, University of Bologna)
Chiaria Fonio (Senior Researcher in Sociology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan)
Juan Carlos de Martin (Associate Professor; Co-director Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Polytechnic University of Turin)
Fabio Massacci (Professor of Computer Security, Universita’ di Trento)
Ugo Pagallo (Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Torino)
Marco Ricolfi (Professor of Intellectual Property, Turin University)
Alessandro Spina (Fellow in Economic Law, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan)
Mathias Vermeulen (Research Fellow, European University Institute)
Francesca Vianello (Lecturer in Sociology of deviance, European group for the study of deviance and social control, University of Padua)
JAPAN
Andrew Adams (Professor of Information Ethics, Meiji University Tokyo)
Itsuko Yamaguchi (Professor of Information Law and Policy, University of Tokyo)
LUXEMBOURG
Peter Ryan (Professor of Applied Security, University of Luxembourg)
NETHERLANDS
Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information law, University of Amsterdam)
Krzysztof Apt (Fellow at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica; Professor of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam)
Axel Arnbak (Ph.D researcher, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam; Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
Bodó Balázs (University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law)
Suki de Boer (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Luc Boerboom (Assistant Professor Spatial Planning and Decision Support Systems and Infrastructures, University of Twente)
Britta Böhler (Professor of Legal Practice, University of Amsterdam)
Arie den Boon (University of Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science)
Kelly Breemen (Ph.D researcher, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Vicky Breemen (Ph.D researcher, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law)
Evelien Brouwer (Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Robin Celikates (Associate Professor on Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam)
Mireille van Eechoud (Professor of Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Nico van Eijk (Professor of Media and Communications Law, University of Amsterdam)
Michael Falgoust (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente)
Beer Franken (Chief Information Security and Privacy Protection Officer, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam)
Michael Faure (Professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law, Maastricht University)
Ferdinand Feldbrugge (Emeritus Professor Eastern European Law, Leiden University)
Stan Gielen (Professor of Biophysics; Dean Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Marieke de Goede (Professor of Politics, University of Amsterdam)
Stef van Gompel (Senior Researcher, Institute of Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Lucie Guibault (Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam)
Elspeth Guild (Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Immigration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Natali Helberger (Professor of Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Mireille Hildebrandt (Professor of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Wouter Hins (Professor of Media Law, Leiden University; Associate Professor Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Amsterdam)
Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Associate Professor in Computer Security, Privacy and Identity Management, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Thomas Hoogeboom (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University)
Bernt Hugenholtz (Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Amsterdam)
Erik Huizer (Professor of Internet Applications, Utrecht University)
Bart Jacobs (Professor of Software Security and Correctness, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Jan Kabel (Emeritus Professor Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Gerard Kempen (Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden University)
Corné van den Kieboom (Ph.D. Researcher in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology, Radboud University Medical Centre)
Merel Koning (Ph.D Researcher, Privacy & Identity Lab, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Bert-Jaap Koops (Professor Regulation & Technology, Tilburg University)
Salomon Kroonenberg (Emeritus Professor of Geology, Delft University of Technology)
Richard Lamb (Lecturer, University of Delft; Member of the Advisory Board, Inter College Business School Amsterdam)
Ronald Leenes (Professor of Regulation by Technology, Tilburg University)
Hans Lindahl (Professor of Legal Philosophy, Tilburg University)
Arno Lodder (Professor on Law and Internet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Marco Loos (Professor of Private Law, University of Amsterdam)
Tarlach McGonagle (Senior Researcher, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Johan Messchendorp (Associate Professor Subatomic Physics, University of Groningen)
Michael Nagenborg (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente)
Ton Nijhuis (Professor of German Studies, University of Amsterdam)
Guido van ‘t Noordende (University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute)
Manon Oostveen (Ph.D researcher, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Mathieu Paapst (Assistant professor Law and IT, University of Groningen)
Ruud Peters (Emeritus Professor Islamic Law, University of Amsterdam)
Matthijs Pontier (Postdoctoral Researcher, VU University Amsterdam)
Johan Pouwelsen (Assistant professor, Delft University of Technology)
Jason Pridmore (Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Corien Prins (Professor Law and Informatisation and Dean Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University)
Beate Roessler (Professor of Ethics and its History, University of Amsterdam)
Rob van der Sandt (Emeritus professor Philosophy of Language and Logic, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Bart Schermer (Assistant professor of Law, Leiden University)
Jan Smits (Professor of European Private Law, Maastricht University)
Rob van Son (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital)
Tsjalling Swierstra (Professor of Philosophy, Maastricht University)
Piet Hein van Kempen (Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Feer Verkade (Emeritus Professor Special aspects of Private Law, University of Amsterdam)
Michael Vliek (Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam)
Bald de Vries (Associate Professor, Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Utrecht University)
Tijmen Wisman (Ph.D Researcher, Transnational Legal Studies, VU University Amsterdam)
Sally Wyatt (Professor Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht University)
Marjoleine Zieck (Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Amsterdam)
Gerrit-Jan Zwenne (Professor of Law, Leiden University)
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius (Ph.D researcher, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam)
NEW ZEALAND
Miriam Lips (Professor of e-Government, Victoria University of Wellington)
Scott Poynting (Professor in Criminology, University of Auckland)
NORWAY
Katja Franko Aas (Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo)
Svein Johan Knapskog (Emeritus Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Hans-Peter Müller (Professor of Periodontology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Arctic University of Norway)
Ann Rudinow Sætnan (Professor of Sociology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
POLAND
Andrzej Adamski (Professor of Criminal Law and Computer Law, Nicolaus Copernicus University)
PORTUGAL
Catarina Frois (Professor of Anthropology, Lisbon University)
SLOVENIA
Matjaz Jager (Director, Senior Researcher, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana)
Katja Šugman Stubbs (Professor of Criminal law and Criminology, University of Ljubljana)
Aleš Završnik (Assistant Professor, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana)
SPAIN
Saúl Ares (Systems Biology Programme, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología)
Alejandro Forero Cuéllar (Researcher, Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights, University of Barcelona
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Professor of Computer Science, UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Gemma Galdon Clavell (Researcher, Sociology Department, Universitat de Barcelona)
Miquel Peguera (Associate Professor of Commercial Law and Internet Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Antoni Roig (Professor Constitutional Law, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Héctor Silveira (Professor in Philosophy of Law, University of Lleida)
SWEDEN
Sonja Buchegger (Associate Professor Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Ingo Fetzer (Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)
Mathias Klang (Lecturer, Universities of Göteborg & Borås)
Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson (Associate Professor in Ethics, Stockholm School of Theology)
SWITZERLAND
Oliver Bendel (Professor of Information Systems and Ethics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW)
Herbert Burkert (Professor Emeritus, President, Research Center for Information Law, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)
Bertil Cottier (Professor of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano)
Joram Feldon (Emeritus Professor, ETH Zurich)
Peter Glassen (Lecturer of Media Science, Bern University of the Arts)
Dirk Helbing (Professor of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, ETH Zurich)
Francisco Klauser (Assistant Professor, Institut de Géographie, University Neuchâtel)
Daniel Kressner (Professor of Mathematics, EPF Lausanne)
Marc Langheinrich (Associate Professor for Computer Science, University of Lugano)
TURKEY
Hüseyin Levent Köker (Professor of Public Law, Atilim University Ankara)
UNITED KINGDOM
Andrew Adam (Senior Tutor, St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford)
Ross Anderson (Professor in Security Engineering, University of Cambridge)
Kristie Ball (Reader in Surveillance and Organization, Open University Business School)
Paul Bernal (Lecturer, UEA Law School, University of East Anglia)
David Berry (Reader in School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex)
Geraint Bevan (Lecturer in Applied Instrumentation and Control, Glasgow Caledonian University)
Saleem Bhatti (Professor, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews)
Eerke Boiten (Senior Lecturer and Director of Centre for Cyber Security Research, University of Kent)
Christin Bolewski (Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University)
Ian Brown (Associate Director of Oxford University’s Cyber Security Centre)
Roger Brownsword (Professor of Law, King’s College London)
Victoria Canning (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University)
Tom Crick (Senior Lecturer in Computing Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Simon Davies (London School of Economics, Information Systems and Innovation Group)
Lilian Edwards (Professor of E-Governance, Strathclyde University)
Karen Evans (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool)
Robin Geiss (Professor, Chair of International Law and Security, University of Glasgow)
Adam Fish (Lecturer, Lancaster University)
Nicola Green (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey)
Thomas Gross (Director Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security; Lecturer Security, Privacy and Trust, Newcastle University)
Andres Guadamuz (Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex)
David Harper (Reader in Clinical Psychology, University of East London)
Ben Hayes (Fellow, Transnational Institute)
Jim Hollinshead (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University)
Douwe Korff (Professor International Law, London Metropolitan University)
Sylvia Kierkegaard (Professor, Cyber Security Research – EPSRC/GCHQ and ILaws, University of Southampton)
Bev Littlewood (Professor of Software Engineering, City University London)
Fiona de Londras (Professor of Law, Durham University; Co-Director, Durham Human Rights Centre)
Anil Madhavapeddy (Senior Research Fellow, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Chris Marsden (Professor of Media Law, University of Sussex)
Karen Mc Cullagh (Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia)
Andrew McStay (Lecturer in Media Culture, Bangor University)
Christopher Millard (Professor of Privacy and Information Law; Director of the Cloud Legal Project, Queen Mary University of London
Philip Moriarty (Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham)
Mike Nellis (Emeritus Professor Criminal and Community Justice, University of Strathclyde)
Clive Norris (Professor of Sociology, The University of Sheffield)
Charles Raab (Professor of Government, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)
Massimo Ragnedda (Lecturer in Mass Communication, Department of Media and Communication Design, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Ana Ramalho (Associate Professor, University of South Wales)
Judith Rauhofer (Lecturer in IT Law, University of Edinburgh)
Brian Randell (Emeritus Professor of Computing Science, Newcastle University)
Mark Ryan (Professor of Computer Security, University of Birmingham)
Burkhard Schafer (Professor of Computational Legal Theory and Director SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP, University of Edinburgh)
Joe Sim (Professor of Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University)
Ann Singleton (Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)
Peter Sommer (Visiting Professor, de Montfort University; Visiting Reader, Open University)
Michael Taylor (Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)
Benno Teschke (Reader, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex)
Steve Tombs (Professor of Criminology, The Open University)
Waqas Tufail (Lecturer in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Luca Viganó (Professor of Computer Science, King’s College London)
Ian Walden (Professor of Information and Communications Law, Queen Mary University of London)
Lynne Wrennall (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University)
Joss Wright (University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute)
Bendert Zevenbergen (DPhil Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
UNITED STATES
Alessandro Acquisti (Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; co-director of CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research)
Robert Boltje (Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Stephen Checkoway (Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University)
Stuart Chen-Hayes (Associate Professor, Counselor Education/School Counseling, Lehman College of the City University of New York)
Samir Chopra (Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Mary deYoung (Professor, Department of Sociology, Grand Valley State University)
Catherine Dwyer (Associate Professor, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems, Pace University)
Barbara Fister (Professor, Library, Gustavus Adolphus College)
Oscar Gandy (Emeritus Professor Communication studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
Seda Gürses (Research Fellow, New York University and KU Leuven)
Jeff Jarvis (Professor of Journalism, City University of New York, Graduate School of Journalism)
Jennifer Lyon (Associate University Librarian, Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida)
Gary Marx (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Aleecia McDonald (Director of Privacy, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford University)
Jasmine McNealy (Assistant professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky)
Andy Moore (Associate Professor, Information School at the University of Washington)
Milton Mueller (Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies)
Michael Ott (Associate Professor of Sociology, Grand Valley State University)
Frank Pasquale (Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
Heather Patterson (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University)
Joel Reidenberg (Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair in Law, Fordham University)
Neil Richards (Professor of Law, Washington University in Saint Louis)
Jay Rosen (Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University)
Marc Rotenberg (Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center)
James Rule (Distinguished Affiliated Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California)
Bruce Schneier (Fellow, Berkman Institute for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School)
Wolfgang Stein (Professor of Neurophysiology, Illinois State University)
Katherine Strandburg (Alfred B. Engelberg Professor of Law, New York University)
Markus Thiel (Assistant Professor; Acting Co-director, EU Center of Excellence Department of Politics & International Relations School of International & Public Affairs, Florida International University)
Justus Verhagen (Associate Fellow, The John B. Pierce Laboratory; Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Yale School Of Medicine)
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