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Eric King

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Eric is head of research at Privacy International, where he runs the Big Brother Incorporated project, an investigation of the international surveillance trade. His work focuses on the intersection of human rights, privacy and technology. He is also the secret prisons technical adviser at Reprieve, and has previously volunteered with the British Institute for International Comparative Law and the Human Rights International Action Team

November 2013

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton

    Snowden spyware revelations: we need to unmask the five-eyed monster

    Eric King
    Eric King: With revelations of spyware planted on 50,000 networks, the "five eyes" states have been allowed to trample over their citizens' privacy for far too long

April 2012

  • David Cameron visits the state palace in Jakarta, Indonesia

    Selling arms and snooping technology is no way to help democracy, Cameron

    Eric King
    Eric King: Any business deal that makes Britain complicit in extrajudicial killings, censorship and torture abroad is a Faustian pact