An Internet Decade - Thursday 7th October 6-8pm
The names are listed alphabetically, by surname, and grouped as follows:
| Name: |
yaman akdeniz |
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| Current Position: |
Founder and Director |
| Current Organisation: |
Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties |
| Background: |
Dr. Yaman Akdeniz – is a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leeds where he teaches and writes mainly about Internet related legal and policy issues. Akdeniz is also the founder and director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) ), a non-profit civil liberties organisation. Dr. Akdeniz is also an international policy fellow of the Open Society Institute working on a project entitled Civil Society Participation to the policy making process of the Turkish Government in relation to the development of an Information Society in Turkey between March 2003-May 2004. He has given written and oral evidence on a number of occasions in front of governmental bodies including at the European Union, United Nations, and OSCE level, most recently in front of the European Parliament Temporary Committee on the Echelon interception systems and its threats to human rights. His publications include Sex on the Net? The Dilemma of Policing Cyberspace (South Street Press, 1999) The Internet, Law and Society (ed. with C. Walker and D. Wall, Longman, 2000); and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: Bigbrother.gov.uk: State surveillance in the age of information and rights, [2001] Criminal Law Review, (February), pp. 73-90 (with Taylor, N.; Walker, C.). His forthcoming publications include Internet Child Pornography and the Law: National and International Responses, Ashgate, (to be published in early 2005). For further information in relation to his work see . |
| Related Links: |
CV with publications
Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties
Cyber-Rights.Net Project pages
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| Current: |
Still doing much of the same as above! |
The names are listed alphabetically, by surname, and grouped as follows:
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