Mike Hawkes

June 16th, 2019

Mike Hawkes has worked in the digital analytics and with police and security services for many years. In addition to the invention, design and implementation of core network security systems, he runs many training courses for governments and police forces covering: data analytics, digital forensics and digital intelligence acquisition. As a self-professed ‘geek’, he has led all manner of projects from ‘big-data’ architecture through to low-level coding – and advises on international strategy for mobile data security in Asia and Europe.

He is a key-note presenter at major international conferences, a radio and television broadcaster and an author. As a technology inventor, he has always championed consumer-rights, data privacy and democracy – he holds numerous international patents around consumer protection, privacy and security. Mike was Chairman of the Mobile Data Association (also it’s Director for M-Commerce and Security) during the 2012 London Olympics and also advised on mobile futures for the GSMA as an active member of its security forum. He has taken his own companies from start-up right through to stock-market listing, and handled subsequent mergers and acquisitions.

He recently wrote Shadow Code as a direct result of a foreign intelligence agency becoming more interested in the snooping equipment he created (to demonstrate our vulnerability to data manipulation and the results of its deliberate misuse) than the technology he built to prevent attacks against our right to privacy – and democracy itself. Mike built the technology he describes in the book and uses his experience of working with the intelligence services to demonstrate how the governments and major corporates can work together to steal our data – and use it to control us.

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