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Dr Moira Carroll-Mayer

Job: Senior Lecturer in Law and Ethics

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and Media

School/department: School of Computer Science and Informatics

Research group(s): Cyber Security Centre, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)116 255 1551

E: mcm@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/csc

 

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Moira Carroll-Mayer BA, MA, LLB, LLM, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Law and Ethics at the Faculty of Technology at De Montfort University in England. She is a member of the Cyber Security Centre and of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University and sits on British Standards Institute panels concerned with digital forensics and security. Her research interests span forensic computing, computer security and the legal and ethical implications of autonomous weapons systems. Moira is sometime Legal Editor of Digital Forensics Magazine.com and an internationally recognised writer and speaker on the legal and ethical implications of advanced weapons systems and communications technologies.

She holds a BA in English and European Studies from the University of Ulster, an MA in Politics and Government from London Guildhall University and an LLB from the University of Westminster. She was awarded the degree of Master of Laws with Distinction in Computers and Law by the Queen’s University of Belfast for her research into emerging issues at the interface of computing and Criminal and Corporate Law. Moira holds a PhD from De Montfort University for her research into the ethical implications of autonomous weapons systems.

Research group affiliations

Cyber Security Centre

Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility

Publications and outputs

  • Intelligence Techniques in Computer Security and Forensics: At the Boundaries of Ethics and Law
    Intelligence Techniques in Computer Security and Forensics: At the Boundaries of Ethics and Law Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; Carroll-Mayer, M.; Elizondo, David; Wakunuma, Kutoma; Zheng, Yingqin Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have been widely used in the domains of computer security and computer forensics. One problem that normative discussions of technologies face is that the technical capabilities under investigation tend to be unclear and that the experts in normative questions do not tend to be experts in technical developments and vice versa. The present paper therefore sets out to chart the ethical and legal problems arising from a new and fast moving field, namely that of computational intelligence and its application to computer security and forensics. Using artificial neural networks (ANNs) as an example of computational intelligence, the paper’s main aim is to create a link between what can now be perceived as technical developments and established discourses in ethics and the law. It aims to chart the territory to highlight likely ethical and legal problems related to ANNs and point in the direction of future research. Stahl, B., Carroll-Mayer, M., Elizondo, D., Wakunuma, K. and Zheng, Y. (2012) Intelligence Techniques in Computer Security and Forensics: At the Boundaries of Ethics and Law. Studies in Computational Intelligence: Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security, 394/2012, pp. 237-258
  • Ethical and legal issues of the use of computational intelligence techniques in computer security and computer forensics.
    Ethical and legal issues of the use of computational intelligence techniques in computer security and computer forensics. Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; Elizondo, David; Carroll-Mayer, M.; Zheng, Yingqin; Wakunuma, Kutoma Stahl, B.C. et al (2010) Ethical and legal issues of the use of computational intelligence techniques in computer security and computer forensics. The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN),
  • Legal Implications and Considerations
    Legal Implications and Considerations Carroll-Mayer, M. Carroll-Mayer, M. (2010) Legal Implications and Considerations. In: Lillard, T.V. (Aut) Digital Forensics for Network, Internet, and Cloud Computing: A Forensic Evidence Guide for Moving Targets and Data, pp. 275-299
  • CCTV identity management and implications for criminal justice: some considerations.
    CCTV identity management and implications for criminal justice: some considerations. Carroll-Mayer, M.; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; Fairweather, N. Ben, 1966- Carroll-Mayer, M., Fairweather, B. and Stahl, B. C. (2008) CCTV identity management and implications for criminal justice: some considerations. Surveillance and Society, 5 (1), pp. 33-50.
  • Cyberspace as an excuse from responsibility.
    Cyberspace as an excuse from responsibility. Carroll-Mayer, M.; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968- Stahl, B.C. (2008) Cyberspace as an excuse from responsibility. In: R. Keeble, ed. Communication ethics now. Troubador Publishing.
  • Forensic computing: the problem of developing a multidisciplinary university course.
    Forensic computing: the problem of developing a multidisciplinary university course. Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; Carroll-Mayer, M.; Norris, P. Stahl, B.C., Carroll-Myer, M. and Norris, P. (2006) Forensic computing: the problem of developing a multidisciplinary university course. In: P. Kanellis et al. Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace. IGI Publishing, pp. 291-310.
  • Cyberspace as an excuse from responsibility.
    Cyberspace as an excuse from responsibility. Carroll-Mayer, M.; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968- Caroll-Mayer, M. and Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968- (2005) Cyberspace as an excuse from responsibility. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 2 (3), pp. 41 -47.

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Key research outputs

Key-note speaker on the Ethics and Legal Implications of Unmanned Vehicles for Defence and Security Purposes Conference, 27th February 2008, RUSI, In Association with British Computer Society (BCS) & Society for British Aerospace Companies (SBAC).

Guest speaker, Proceedings of the Technology in Wartime conference, Stanford, USA, 2008,Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles and the Myth of Battle Readiness: Facing the Facts.

Research interests/expertise

Law, ethics, technology, digital forensics, systems security, security management, ethics and law of advanced weapons systems.

Areas of teaching

Law and Ethics of digital technologies, Security Management, Professionalism in Forensics, Security, Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Qualifications

BA, MA, LLB, LLM, PhD

Courses taught

BSc Security Management, BSc Forensic Computing, BSc Computer Science, BSc Software Engineering, MSc Forensic Computing, MSc Security Management.

Current research students

PhD-Information Trust: Professional Ethics at Risk in E-Government. PhD-Legal Aspects of Intrusion Detection.

Professional esteem indicators

BCS commendation for development of legal and ethical elements of MSc degrees in Forensic Computing and Security Management, 2012.