{"id":1499,"date":"2019-09-03T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2019-09-03T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:52:59","slug":"new-home-office-role-for-edas-cyber-security-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/09\/03\/new-home-office-role-for-edas-cyber-security-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"New Home Office role for EDA&#8217;s cyber security expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__content\">\n<p>Dr Richard Guest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a> and core member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.kent.ac.uk\/\">Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security<\/a> has been selected to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/biometrics-and-forensics-ethics-group\">UK Home Office\u2019s Biometric and Forensics Ethics Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed by the Home Secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/669\/guest-richard\">Richard Guest<\/a> will join the independent group of leading multidisciplinary experts to provides advice and guidance to ministers and government on issues of biometric and forensic data use and systems implementation, such as the use of facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Guest\u2019s appointment builds on the success of biometric research at Kent within current projects such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amber-biometrics.eu\/\">AMBER<\/a> Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/hummingbird\/index.page\">Hummingbird<\/a>interdisciplinary project and collaborations with organisations such as the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.gov.uk\/\">National Cyber Security Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Guest of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts and core member of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/09\/03\/new-home-office-role-for-edas-cyber-security-expert\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178002,197040,197057,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}