Ross Bellaby is a lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Sheffield’s Politics Department. His research focuses on designing ethical frameworks for the intelligence community and for cyber-activity. His ethical framework is set out his book, The Ethics of Intelligence: A New Framework (2014). This work is further developed in papers on counterterrorism and the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program (2017), the justifiability of cyber-intelligence (2017), the ethical obligation of whistleblowing (2017), and the need for more dark web technology to protect against state surveillance (2018).