Confirmed participants: Louise Amoore (Durham University); Kirstie Ball (Open University); Debbie Lisle (Queen’s University Belfast); Luis Lobo-Guerrero (Keele University); Beate Roessler (University of Amsterdam); Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam)
Abstracts Due 1 March 2009
After 9/11, many European states adopted a so-called “intelligence-led approach” to combating terrorism. This approach stresses proactive and sometimes massive information gathering and data exchange in order to prevent and preempt terrorist attacks. Two important characteristics of this approach are: increased cooperation with private authorities to obtain a wide range of information and a strong belief that terrorism can be prevented through smart technologies. These technologies, often initially designed for commercial purposes, allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies to ‘connect the dots’ through profiling, data mining, social network analysis, risk analysis and other predictive technologies. Read more about @title...
Call for paper proposals for a workshop on "The Surveillance Games" Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC. November 20-22, 2009
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Congratulations to Jason Pridmore on his new position as senior researcher at the DigIdeas project under the direction of NewT collaborator Irma van der Ploeg at Zuyd University in The Netherlands. Read more about @title...
PhD stipends are available in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, to work on projects under the supervision of Prof. Read more about @title...
Report "Beyond Big Data Surveillance: Freedom and Fairness" sheds light on big data surveillance in Canada To read the report in English, go here To read the report in French,... Read more about @title...
