Ian Brown is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, where he leads research on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy, copyright and e-democracy. He also works in the more technical fields of information security, networked systems and healthcare informatics.

Dr Brown is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the International University of Japan and the British Computer Society, a senior member of the ACM, and has consulted for the US Department of Homeland Security, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Allianz, McAfee, BT, the BBC, the European Commission, the Cabinet Office, Ofcom, the National Audit Office and the Information Commissioner’s Office. He has variously been a trustee of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and an adviser to Greenpeace, the Refugee Council, Amnesty International and Creative Commons UK.

His new book Online Privacy and the Law (with Lilian Edwards) will be published by Edward Elgar in late 2010.