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Internet-of-Ingestible-Things: Future Crime
29 March 2021, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
In the first of this series looking at bio-cybersecurity, Prof Shane Johnson will discuss how new technology has changed offending and how we might address this.
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UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering
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Zoom webinarOnlineEverywhereUnited Kingdom
Traditional crime has been falling for some time in many countries around the world. However, developing technologies and our use of them are creating new opportunities for offending. For example, estimates from the Crime Survey of England and Wales suggest that at least half of all crime is now committed online. To date, academia and law enforcement have been rather reactive both in terms of identifying new and emerging forms of offending and in developing approaches to address them. In this talk, I will discuss some of our research on how technology (e.g. AI, Internet of Things) could or has changed offending, how we might address this, and the opportunities emerging technologies might offer in terms of the prevention of crime.
INTERNET-OF-INGESTIBLE-THINGS HACKATHON SERIES – Enteromics in partnership with the Dawes Centre for Future Crime and the Biohacking village
Join us in a series of talks that explore the prospects and challenges of the Internet-of-Ingestible-Things devices, or smart gut-sensing pills and apply to take part in our hackathon for a chance to win £1000 cash prize!
Learn about and design the new secure smart gut-sensing pills.
Why the "Internet-of-Ingestible-Things"?Studies show that our intestinal flora have the ability to combat disease, give us mental guidance, and in general keep us safe. We need to consider bio-cybersecurity early during medical design, now more than ever, as medical devices flood the market in response to COVID-19, which has only highlighted weakness in an overburdened healthcare system and in cyber-biosecurity supply chains.
How do I take part in the Internet-of-Ingestible-Things hackathon ?
- Registration opens - March 2021
- Team allocations & Proposal submissions - April 2021
- Top 3 teams Selected & Workshops - May 2021
- Demo Battle (Judges & People’s Vote) & Winner announced - June 2021
The hackathon is a series of workshops bringing together experts from cybersecurity with medical device regulatory bodies and makers, to help design security for the "Internet-of-Ingestible-Things". Ingestible Things are internet connected ingestible medical devices such as smart gut-sensing pills.
What’s in it for me?
- Cash prize for the winning team of £1000 sponsored by the Dawes Centre for Future Crime!
- Learn about the state of the art in this novel, fast-moving technological area
- Help to design future policy for the Internet-of-Ingestible-Things
About the Speaker
Professor Shane Johnson
Director at Dawes Centre for Future Crime, UCL
Professor Shane D. Johnson is Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at University College London (UCL), and co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity. He has a PhD and an MA in psychology and a BSc in computer science. His work has been funded by UK research councils, charitable trusts, the Home Office, police forces, and through the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Initiative. He has published over 130 articles and book chapters and his research has focused on topics including reducing crime through design, predictive policing, the application of complexity science to issues of crime and security, and developing the evidence base of what works to reduce crime. His current interests focus on how developing technology and social change are influencing new forms of crime opportunity. He is a member of the scientific advisory councils for the UK Home Office’s and the Max Planck Institute, and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.