The research groups Crime Control and Security Law (Faculty of Law) and Cyber Security Group (Department of Computer Science) invite all interested parties to a guest lecture with Hans-Jörg Albrecht, professor and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg.
The CCSL/CS-Talk on "Data, Data Banks and Security" will address various examples of data-driven policing, its legal provisions and effects on a society's understanding of public security. The CCSL/CS-Talk will focus on: (a) the collection of classical data such as fingerprints or DNA, which serve to identify suspects and to collect evidence; (b) the processes and the impetus of big data; and (c) the networking of files from different security authorities.
Furthermore, it discusses systematic forecasting tools and to work out a significant difference between the prediction of incidents such as home burglary in the case of predictive policing, and the identification of individuals deemed to be at risk of involvement in various forms of crime in the case of risk control programs.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Jörg Albrecht is director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany, as well as an honorary professor and faculty member at the University of Freiburg's law faculty. He also serves as a guest professor at the Center for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the China University of Political Science and Law, as well as at the law faculties of Hainan University, Renmin University, Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, and Dalian Ocean University. Prof. Albrecht's research interests encompass the full spectrum of contemporary legal and criminological discourse.