Tower of London
St Katharine's & Wapping, London EC3N 4AB
UK
Until the 1900s, the Tower of London was used to censor those considered a danger to the Crown. In this age of online freedom our panel of journalist, historians and activists discuss the role of whistle blowers, Hacktivists and the dangers and debate around state controlled censorship.
Speakers:
Lauren Johnson
Lauren Johnson is an author and historian. Her history of the first year of Henry VIII’s reign (‘So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII‘) was recently published by Head of Zeus. She is currently working on a biography of that much-maligned monarch from the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI.
Lauren also works as Research Manager for the live costumed interpretation company, Past Pleasures Ltd, at heritage sites including Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London
@history_lauren
Jim Killock
Since joining Open Rights Group in January 2009, Jim has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive government Internet surveillance. In 2012 he was named as one of the 50 most influential people on IP issues by Managing IP and in the same year ORG won Liberty’s Human Rights Campaigner of Year award for work on issues from copyright to the Snooper’s Charter.
Matt Burgess
Matt Burgess is a staff writer for WIRED magazine in the UK; primarily working online but also for the print edition. He covers everything from security, artificial intelligence, and robotics to disruptive startups and the latest innovations. Burgess has also written a book on how journalists in the UK should use the Freedom of Information Act to access official documents from public bodies, runs the FOI Directory website, plus talks on government transparency and how the right to access information.
http://www.foi.directory/author/