David Wright is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Trilateral Research & Consulting, a London-based Limited Liability Partnership. Founded in October 2004, Trilateral (www.trilateralresearch.com) specialises in research and the provision of strategic, policy and regulatory advice on new technologies, privacy, surveillance, trust, risk and security issues.

 

David Wright is or has been a member of the Living in Surveillance Societies COST action, of Working Group 2 of the FP7 ThinkTrust project, of the European Foresight Monitoring Network (EFMN) and a member of the international advisory board of the iNTeg-Risk project, which is focused on the “Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology Related Risks” and of ENISA’s Stakeholder Forum on Future and Emerging Risks. He has participated in four ENISA expert groups on privacy, trust, the Internet of Things, etc.

 

He is also a freelance researcher on the faculty of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has initiated, organised and participated in several successful consortia in the European Commission’s Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes. Since 2004, Trilateral has participated in the following EC-funded projects: SWAMI (Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence), STARC (Stakeholders and Risk Communications), SENIOR (Social ethical and privacy needs in ICT for older people), PRITUIS (Privacy and Trust in the Ubiquitous Information Society), PRESCIENT (Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology), BRAID (Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development). Trilateral is a partner in two new projects: SAPIENT (Supporting fundamentAl rights, PrIvacy and Ethics in surveillance Technologies) and PIAF (A Privacy Impact Assessment Framework for data protection and privacy rights), both of which began in 2011.