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UK Privacy Advocate Caspar Bowden Dies

Posted by samzenpus on from the rest-in-peace dept.

wendyg writes: Many outlets are reporting that UK privacy advocate Caspar Bowden has died. For ten years or so, Caspar was one of Microsoft's leading privacy officers, but he is most significantly known as a tireless campaigner against back-doored encryption and key escrow. As a founder of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, he spent countless hours studying the legislation that became the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and was instrumental in keeping some of the worst proposals out of the eventual law. Campaigners from Privacy International, Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group, and No2ID all speak of how important his advice and insight were in their work.

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  1. Fuck cancer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fuck cancer.

  2. Rest in peace. by Burz · · Score: 2

    I know that Caspar was active in the Qubes OS community and he is credited with introducing Qubes to the European Parliament before they recommended it as a mitigation against mass surveillance. He also served as a Director for the Tor Project.

    Computing UK has posted an obituary here.