Event: Detection Technologies, Counter-Terrorism Ethics, and Human Rights (Florence, 18 February 2010)

Venue: Sala Europa, Villa Schiffanoia, European University Institute (Via Boccaccio 121, Firenze, Italy).

To register please e-mail Mathias Vermeulen at mathias.vermeulen@eui.eu.

Programme for Thursday 18 February 2010

9.00 – 9.15 Introduction by Prof. Martin Scheinin, Professor of International Law at the European University Institute and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism

9.15 – 11.00 Identification of terrorist suspects through detection technologies: risks and opportunities

Chair: Martin Scheinin (European University Institute, Italy)

• Ehud Givon (WECU-technologies, Israel) – Security through intent detection
• Jacques Verraes (Europan Commission, Belgium) – Data protection issues related to identification of terrorist suspects
• Ben Hayes (Statewatch, United Kingdom) – Respondent to presentations of Commission and WeCU technologies

11.30 – 13.30 Human rights aspects of the use of detection technologies

Chair: Daniel Moeckli (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

• Roos Van Der Hilst (University of Oslo, Norway) – Human rights risks of selected detection technologies – sample uses by governments
• Emilio Mordini (Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy) –  Biometrics, Body, Identity
• R. Leenes (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands) – Location based surveillance – why planes, trains and automobiles are the new castles

15.00 – 17.00 UN Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin on “Developments in the declaration of exceptions, claims of inapplicability, or unilateral modifications in respect of international law for the sake of counter-terrorism”