FACTOR is pleased to announce our Week 3 discussion, which will be led by Dr Justin Lo:
TITLE
Public trust in digital data & evidence
ABSTRACT
For Week 3, we are planning to have a discussion on public trust in digital data and evidence. This is inspired by a few reports that I have recently come across, all broadly linked to this theme and with interesting commonalities, and I thought it would be worth having a think what the issues outlined in these reports mean for the forensic and security areas. I’ll present a brief summary in the beginning, but I also invite you to have a quick read (none of them are particularly lengthy):
- CETaS report on UK public attitudes to national security data processing: Assessing human and machine intrusion (linked) (The report is long, but there is a good executive summary.)
- Williams et al. (2026). Public perceptions of speech technology trust in the United Kingdom. Computer Speech & Language
- Trust in Forensic Science Evidence (2024) Project Launch Event Report
TIME & PLACE
W03, 1400-1450, Thu 23rd Oct 2025
In-person: County South C89
Online: Teams
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