Digital Safety - Graham Brown-Martin - Introduction

Digital Safety in an Interconnected World, London, June 19, 2009. Introduction speech to the Digital Safety Conference. Graham draws reference to Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" as a metaphor for the present scenario for digital safety.

Digital Britain - Digital Safety?

The inaugural Digital Safety Conference brought together thought leaders, policy makers, legal professionals, law enforcement agencies, government representatives, educators, industry leaders and those committed to protecting civil liberties to consider the health, reputation and environment of the digital world.

From the Internet to location based services to mobile communications; the nature of this independent conference was indisputably positive towards these technologies and the enormous benefits that they bring to society. In acknowledging the benefits we also acknowledged that there are individuals, organisations and agencies that abuse the power of these systems. The purpose of the conference was to explore and rehearse arguments for greater international interoperability between agencies, governments and service providers to work towards a safer digital world. For everybody.