Dear friends, students, We are delighted to invite you to this year’s ITalks: “Lobbyists, Activists or Radicals: Who Will Save Freedom and Democracy?” The talk will take place at 2 PM on the 16th of January in the Festsaal 2 @ the Learning Center WU. Simon Davies will give a talk on how paid lobbyists, but also activists and radicals shape our society and public policy (with emphasis on privacy policy). Simon Davies is an advocate, an activist, campaigner and a radical. He is also an academic, policy consultant, journalist and author. He is one of the most experienced and influential privacy experts and advocates of our time. He was one of the first campaigners in the field of international privacy advocacy, founding the watchdog organization Privacy International <http://www.privacyinternational.org/> in 1990 and subsequently working in emerging areas of privacy such as electronic visual surveillance, identity systems, border security, encryption policy and biometrics. He taught the ground-breaking MSc Masters course in "Privacy & Data Protection" at LSE for 13 years. Read more about Simon Davies on his blog “The Privacy Surgeon”, on LSEs enterprise <http://www.lse.ac.uk/businessAndConsultancy/LSEEnterprise/who.aspx> official page or on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Davies_%28privacy_advocate%29> . Read more about the event on http://www.wu.ac.at/ec/events/ There is a mandatory registration for the talk (due to limited hall capacity) so if you want to hear the talk don’t forget to register at http://ec-wu.at/italk/registration.php The event is organized in co-operation with ÖH and GlobArt. We are looking forward to seeing you at the ITalks!