BEN HAYES

Ben Hayes (30), UK, has been a researcher with the civil liberties group Statewatch since 1996, specialising in the development and implementation of EU Justice and Home Affairs policy. He has published widely on civil liberties issues in Europe and the "war on terrorism". He works with of range of NGOs and community groups, and is joint co-ordinator of the European Civil Liberties Network, launched in October 2005. Ben wrote Arming Big Brother, a briefing on the European Union’s Security Research programme for TNI in 2006 and has received a TNI Next Generation award to write a book on the European Security State for TNI, to be published in 2007.

Languages: English

Research interests: European Union militarism and security, civil liberties

Publications

Arming Big Brother
The EU's Security Research Programme
April 2006

Journalism, Civil Liberties and the "War on Terrorism" (PDF)
Ben Hayes and Aidan White
International Federation of Journalists and Statewatch, 2005

Data Protection in the Police Sector in Europe: a Failure to Regulate (PDF)
Published in "Ethnic Profiling by Police in Europe", the Open Society Justice Initiative, 2005