Charles Raab is Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh, formerly Professor of Government; co-Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP); co-Chair, Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing (IDEPP); Fellow, Alan Turing Institute (ATI); member, ATI Data Ethics Group; member, Expert Group, Digital Identity Scotland; member, Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (Home Office). Research on privacy/data protection, surveillance, regulation and related topics. Publications include The Governance of Privacy (2003; 2006); A Report on the Surveillance Society (2006). Specialist Adviser, House of Lords Constitution Committee for inquiry, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, HL Paper 18, Session 2008-09.