Timothy Mitchener-Nissen is a Crime Scientist primarily interested in; the legality and ethics of security technologies; improving and facilitating the intersection of law, society and technology; and the promotion and treatment of ethics as practical design principles for the developers of security technologies.
He possesses a Bachelor of Arts (psychology), Graduate Law Degree, Master of Laws (criminal) and Master of Research (security and crime science). He is currently completing his PhD in Security and Crime Science at University College London funded by the EPSRC, where he is producing tools to assist the developers of security technologies in incorporating societal, legal, and ethical concerns upstream in the design processes of their products.
His previous research projects include; the role of juries in complex criminal fraud trials; examining public opinions on the use of whole body scanners to screen passengers at Manchester Airport; the impact on privacy from employing multiple surveillance technologies within the same environment; the potential use of functional magnetic resonance imaging for lie detection purposes within criminal trials; and the need for incorporating ethical principles into the designs of autonomous building security systems, specifically within the area of bio-terrorism responses.
Currently he is the ethical advisor on the FP7 funded project RIBS – Resilient Infrastructure and Building Security, he is published in the fields of aviation security and building security, and has tutored EU constitutional law at London Metropolitan University.
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