Skip to main content
Back to content

Keir Lamont (Archived Bio)

Policy Fellow

Keir (Email: [email protected], PGP Key: 0x36406314) is the inaugural Georgetown Privacy and Technology Policy Fellow at Access Now. Keir has prior experience working for the responsible implementation of emerging technologies and democratic participation at the Institute for Public Representation and Common Cause. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Florida. Keir enjoys chess, Wizards basketball, and touring Civil War battlefields.

Access Now theme

Lurkers prohibited: Human rights apply to social media monitoring

13 Jan 2016

Politicians and law enforcement in the U.S., E.U, and elsewhere are calling for more authority to monitor user-generated social media content, a practice that is inherently intrusive and ripe for abuse. We provide recommendations for limiting such programs.

Post
Lurkers prohibited: Human rights apply to social media monitoring
13 Jan 2016
Lurkers prohibited: Human rights apply to social media monitoring
brightly coloured image of fists and signs

The human rights problem with social media monitoring

8 Jan 2016

We take a look at the human rights implications of government proposals to monitor user-generated social media content.

Post
The human rights problem with social media monitoring
8 Jan 2016
The human rights problem with social media monitoring
Privacy Overview

This website uses strictly necessary cookies for functionality, and asks if you’d like to opt-in to anonymous analytics collection. The anonymous analytic cookies are stored in your browser and perform functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you utilise the most. We use this information to improve our website layout, content, and donations practices.

Strictly Necessary

Strictly necessary cookies should be enabled at all times. These cookies are used only for fraud prevention, session integrity, and to save your cookie preferences.

Analytics

Access Now uses Matomo, an open-source, self-hosted analytics platform, to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, what people's journey across our website looks like, and the most popular pages. The data collected is stored on our own, secure servers and never shared with third parties.