Democratic Intelligence

Seven years after the Snowden revelations, recent key court rulings in Europe have drawn a renewed focus on surveillance legislation and oversight. As a consequence, future data sharing arrangements involving EU Member States will have to be measured against the standards of the Court of Justice of the European Union and require in-depth scrutiny of government intelligence programs.

Against this backdrop, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung and the Heinrich Boell Foundation will present a new online tool which features and discusses good practices from democracies that reformed legislation and oversight on bulk collection in the wake of the Snowden revelations.

Yet, the international search for adequate standards and safeguards is ongoing. The website is thus also a call for participation. We invite experts to alert us about good practices in their respective democracies.

You will be able to find the online tool under intelligence-oversight.org - it will go online prior to the event on the morning of 18 March 2021.

 
Programme:

05:00pm (CET)
Welcome Giorgio Franceschini, Division Head Foreign and Security Policy, Heinrich Boell Foundation

05:10pm
Intelligence governance and oversight – Who is interested in a comparatative perspective and why? Sharon Bradford Franklin, Policy Director, Open Technology Institute, New America

05.20pm
The importance of Convention 108+ in the field of intelligence oversight: Sophie Kwasny, Head of the Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe

05.30pm
The design and features of intelligence-oversight.org: Charlotte Dietrich, Project Manager, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

05:40pm
Q & A

05:55pm
Wrap up: Thorsten Wetzling, Project Director, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Contact:
Milena Grünewald (Project Manager Foreign and Security Policy, Heinrich Boell Foundation), gruenewald@boell.de

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The access information will be sent to you via e-mail 24 h prior to the event and, again, 2 h prior to the event.

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