CPDP 2015: Monitoring the net for violent extremist material.
Organised by VOXPOL Project
Chair: Pete Fussey, University of Essex (UK)
Moderator: Maura Conway, University College Dublin (IE)
Panel: Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute (UK), Sadhbh McCarthy, Centre for Irish and European Security (IE), TJ McIntyre, Trinity College Dublin (IE), Robindra Prabhu, Norwegian Board of Technology (NO)
The objective of this panel is to discuss the ethics and politics of the day-to-day monitoring of the Net for violent extremist material – including material inciting racial hatred from extreme right wing groups (including fascist political movements in Europe), and material “glorifying” and recruiting individuals to terrorism. It will discuss the monitoring activities of police, intelligence agencies, the Internet industry, and private groups and individuals – including the use of information fusion and information technology analysis techniques to acquire, integrate, process, analyse, and manage the diversity of content available. These issues have important long-term academic and policy implications, but also contemporary resonance given the role extremist content is playing in some EU member states, and current conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Gaza. The panel will discuss, in particular:
Social media and Internet communications surveillance
Privatised law enforcement and human rights
Counter-terrorism and foreign fighters
The function, capability and role of data fusion.