# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caspar-bowden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:22:47.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caspar-bowden"
name: "Caspar Bowden"
slug: "caspar-bowden"
description: "Caspar Pemberton Scott Bowden was a British privacy advocate, formerly a chief privacy adviser at Microsoft. Styled as \"an independent advocate for information privacy rights, and public understanding of privacy research in computer science\", he was on the board of the Tor anonymity service. and a fellow of the British Computer Society. Having predicted US mass surveillance programmes such as PRISM from open sources, he gathered renewed attention after the Snowden leaks vindicated his warnings."
tagline: "British privacy advocate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caspar_Bowden-IMG_8991.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1961-08-19"
deathDate: "2015-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.136357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Bowden"
    title: "Caspar Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "كاسبار بودن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "كاسبار بودن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Bowden"
    title: "Caspar Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Bowden"
    title: "Caspar Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Bowden"
    title: "Caspar Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Bowden"
    title: "Caspar Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16240767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump