Caspar Bowden

British privacy advocate

  • Fame36.3
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia84
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Lived 1961–2015, aged 54United Kingdom
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  • Era
    1961–2015
    Aged 54
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Updated 2026-06-23

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.

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