• 2009.09.24 to 2009.09.25

National ID Cards lecture, LSE

You are warmly invited to attend a special lecture by David Lyon, entitled "National ID cards in a globalized world: Surveillance, security and citizenship". The lecture is based on his new book, "Identifying citizens: ID cards as surveillance", recently published by Polity Press.

The event will take place on September 24th, from 12:30-14:00, in the New Academic Building (NAB) at...

  • 2009.09.01

ESRC/SSN Seminar: Architectures, Spaces, Territories

ESRC / Surveillance Studies Network Seminar Series
The Everyday Life of Surveillance

Seminar 5: Architectures, Spaces, Territories
September 1st, 2009
@ Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

9.00am registration for 9.30 am start. Finish by 4.30pm

Cost: free.

Please e-mail Kim McCartney if you want to come. Places are limited. First come, first served!

Outline:

  • 2010.01.14 to 2010.01.16

Camera Surveillance in Canada: A Research Workshop

Camera Surveillance in Canada: A Research Workshop

January 14-16*, 2010, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Sponsored by the 2009-2010 Contributions Program of the
Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), Ottawa

*The workshop will coincide with the opening of an art exhibition called Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control and a related symposium at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC) at Queen's University. There will be additional AEAC programming happening on Sunday 17 January, which you may wish to plan to attend.

The Camera Surveillance Awareness Network (SCAN) invites paper proposals for a workshop on camera surveillance. This research workshop will explore developments and policy implications of camera surveillance in the Canadian context. We welcome proposals on, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • case studies on the use of camera surveillance in any context
  • international, technological and corporate themes
  • historical and urban planning perspectives
  • public perceptions
  • legal and policy considerations
  • privacy and security issues associated with camera surveillance systems, including police, private security and small business
  • camera surveillance at mega events

Deep-Packet Inspection in Canada

Colin Bennett and Christopher Parsons have received a grant for $28,211 from the Federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner under the Contributions Program to develop a repository of information about Deep-Packet Inspection in Canada.

Read the official OPC announcement here: ://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090529_cp_e.cfm

  • 2009.07.06 to 2009.07.08

Privacy Laws & Business 22nd Annual International Conference

Privacy Laws & Business 22nd Annual International Conference

6th - 8th July 2009
St. John's College, Cambridge, UK

Privacy as a business risk for top management:
Compliance in the credit crunch

Speakers include Colin Bennett and Charles Raab.

For more information, see: https://www.privacylaws.com/templates/AnnualConferences.aspx?id=641

Mat Johnson wins essay prize

Mat Johnson is the 2008-09 winner of a new Essay Contest established by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

The paper entitled "Protecting Privacy in Public: The Need for Public Surveillance Regulation in Canada", was written under the supervision of Professor Art Cockfield, who encouraged Mat to enter this new essay contest. Mat will receive $2,500 for...

  • 2010.03.16 to 2010.03.19

2nd Surveillance in Latin America Symposium

Identification, Identity and Surveillance in Latin America
March 16-18, 2010

University of the State of Mexico
Faculty of Political and Social Studies
Tuluca, Mexico

Call for papers release: July 15, 2009.
Deadline for abstracts: October 30, 2009.

Accepted list: January 15, 2010.
Deadline for full papers: February 28, 2010.

Organizers: Nelson Arteaga Botello, Roberto Fuentes Rionda

For more info see:
CFP English
CFP...

  • 2010.09.09 to 2010.09.11

The Political Economy of Surveillance: A Research Workshop

Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK
Sept 9 – 11 2010

Funded by ‘The New Transparency’ Major Collaborative Research Initiative and ‘Living in Surveillance Societies’ EU COST Action

The New Transparency (‘NewT’) and the Living in Surveillance Societies COST action (‘LiSS’) presents a workshop on ‘The Political Economy of Surveillance’. One of the key driving...

SCAN Awarded OPC Funding

The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has awarded SCAN (Surveillance Cameras Awareness Network, an affiliated pan-Canadian group of The Surveillance Project) $50,000 to complete research and produce a report on Video Surveillance in Canada and to mount an international research workshop on the same theme.

Read the official OPC announcement here: http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090529_cp_e.cfm

  • 2009.09.04 to 2009.09.05

Queen's GTG Deadline

Application deadline (for Oct - Dec) for Queen's NewT graduate travel grant.
Email surveill at queensu.ca for more information.

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