Adversarial Perception in Deep Learning Networks

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Seminar recording available here.

Abstract:

Deep Learning (DL) networks are the current great hope for artificial intelligence. They have achieved impressive feats like approaching or surpassing human performance on image recognition (including facial recognition) and language... Read more about @title...

New Power Regimes and Forms of Surveillance: The Pandemic as a Laboratory of Power

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Seminar recording available here

Abstract:

What are the main features of the new contemporary power regime and the emerging forms of surveillance? I intend to investigate this question following the steps of Michel Foucault, but looking beyond the sovereign,... Read more about @title...

Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance

By Krys Maki

Virtual book launch

December 15, 2021

6:30-7:30pm EST

Hosted by Fernwood Publishing, Novel Idea, the Department of Sociology and the Surveillance Studies Centre

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-ineligible-single-mothers-under-welfare-surveillance-tickets-217024164117

Krys Maki, PhD (They/Them pronouns), is a Researcher and Consultant, and Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance is based on their PhD research on welfare surveillance. The book... Read more about @title...

Big Data Exposed: GNSS & the Quest for Accuracy in the Digital City

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Seminar recording available here

We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe.

Abstract:
We present Big Data Exposed (BDE), a sub-project of A Day in the Life of Metadata... Read more about @title...

Minding the FloCs: Alphabet’s AI-first strategy and transformations in surveillance capitalism

Seminar recording available here.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe... Read more about @title...

Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Seminar recording available here

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe by Monday, November 1, 2021.

Abstract:

Computational procedures increasingly inform how we work, communicate, and make decisions. In this talk, Brayne draws on interviews and... Read more about @title...

COVID-19 and the `Policification` of Public Health Policy in Canada

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe

Abstract:

In the fall of 2019, the world saw the emergence and global spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) capable of causing acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) in... Read more about @title...

Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities

Seminar recording available here

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe by Monday, September 27, 2021.

Abstract:
As new... Read more about @title...

Research Roundup

Wednesday, September 15, 2021
1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
Online

The aim of the SSC Research Round-up is to give everyone the opportunity to welcome new and returning students, staff and faculty and update each other on recent and ongoing research as it relates to surveillance studies. Please come prepared to discuss your current work!