Privacy is often seen today as a matter of technical innovation and regulation, where privacy is traded within the digital market in the hope of security.

However, our trust of other people and the willingness to take the risk of sharing our digital information with them, as on social networking sites, goes hand-in-hand with a lack of confidence in institutions, both state and commercial, that helps to blur the distinctions between public and private.

This confusion is magnified in an age when our personal activities leave behind a permanent trail of digital fingerprints - a mass of personal information the uses of which we have varying amounts of control.

Dr Norman Lewis will emphasise both the importance of rethinking privacy and its key role in meeting the challenges in our wired world.

Tue, 16th Feb 2010, Start 7.15pm to 9pm Bellerbys College, 1 Billinton Way, Brighton, East Susssex BN1 4LF (map & directions)