GUARDINT team member Dr. Thorsten Wetzling presented recent research on oversight innovations as well as the new online discussion platform aboutintel.eu at the International Intelligence Oversight Forum (IIOF) in front of 150 selected experts from intelligence agencies, oversight bodies, government,… Read More »International Intelligence Oversight Forum (IIOF) 2019
CONFERENCE 18.09. to 19.09.2019 This international research workshop discusses the different publications of the program UTIC (2014-2019) on the communications surveillance practices of police and intelligence services, in particular in France but also on the European and transatlantic level. Thorsten… Read More »State Surveillance and Democracy in the Digital Era: A Transnational Perspective
The GUARDINT research team responsible for the creation of an Intelligence Oversight Index, organized a workshop in Berlin to discuss initial thoughts on the conceptualization of democratic intelligence oversight and its operationalization through indicators with selected methodologists and other experts,… Read More »How to measure intelligence oversight
Workshop of the project team: 13.05.2019, Berlin, Germany This internal kick-off meeting launched the three-year collaborative project between the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, the WZB, Sciences Po Paris, King’s College London and Lyon 3 University. The project, funded by DFG, ANR and ESRC under the fifth… Read More »Kick-off conference at WZB
Rethinking National Security, Secrecy and Intelligence Governance The revelations by Edward Snowden in 2013 and subsequent inquiries have highlighted how Western intelligence agencies use the potential of digital surveillance. Agencies like the US-American NSA, the British GCHQ or the German… Read More »Panel discussion on Digital Surveillance and Democracy
