Eric King is a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary, University London where he teaches surveillance law. Previously, he was Director of Don’t Spy On Us, a UK coalition of NGOs campaigning for reform of the laws and policies regulating investigatory powers. For six years he was the Deputy Director at Privacy International where he broadly worked on issues related to signals intelligence and human rights. He holds an LLB from the London School of Economics, where he also occasionally teaches. He is on the advisory council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, the Open Rights Group, and is a member of the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing.