Questions remain over political party data practices after recent testimony, says expert Colin Bennett

by Laura Ryckewaert, The Hill Times , November 5, 2018

Little has been learned and questions remain after the recent and unprecedented House committee appearance by representatives from Canada’s major political parties, who spoke about and took questions on parties’ collection, use, and protection of personal data, says University of Victoria professor and privacy expert Colin Bennett. Read...

Call For Papers: Data-driven Elections

The Big Data Surveillance (BDS) project, centered at Queen’s University, and funded by a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in collaboration with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPCBC) is organizing a research workshop on “Data-Driven Elections: Implications and Challenges for Democratic Societies” to be held in Victoria, B.C....

SSC Seminar Series: Alix Johnson (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Queen's University)

Watched Waters: Emerging Regimes of (Spatializing) Arctic Surveillance

Wednesday, January 16, 2018

1:00 – 2 pm (Note time change)

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411

Abstract:

In recent years, the Arctic Ocean has emerged as a flashpoint, its melting waters increasingly marked by military tensions, resource extraction, and commercial development. Less publicly, the Arctic is also increasingly monitored by surrounding states’ surveillance tools. From revived Cold War...

eQuality Lesson Plans for the Disconnection Challenge

Teens Talk Tech: Social Media and Families in the Digital Age was hosted by the Surveillance Studies Centre , along with The eQuality Project , the Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation District 27 , and the Kingston Frontenac Public Library . Valerie Steeves, University of Ottawa, and Valerie Michaelson, Queen's University discussed...

SSC Seminar Series: Lisa Carver (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University)

GeronTechnology, Surveillance and Privacy

Wednesday, November 21 2018, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411

Abstract:

Apps in wearable technology such as fitbits and smart watches, and phones, are used to collect small pieces of health data such as pulse, heart rate and regularity as well as information including health related appointments and health related products purchased. Like...

SSC Seminar Series: Nasma Ahmed (Director, Digital Justice Lab)

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Nasma Ahmed

Alternative "Futures"

Wednesday, November 28 2018, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411 

Abstract:

We will be exploring how we can shape and explore "the future" when the world feels like absolute crap. We will be working together to create a small guide that can help us check in with each other and ourselves during these...

SSC Seminar Series: Molly Sauter (Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in Communication Studies, McGill University, QC)

Psychotic Ecologies of Images: The Smart City Through the Lens of Sontag

Wednesday, October 31 2018, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411 

Abstract:

This talk is a philosophical intervention in “big data” and camera-based methodologies as they are deployed in electoral and representative politics and smart city projects in the West. This paper stakes out a phenomenological, critical perspective regarding the...

SSC Seminar Series: sava saheli singh (Postdoctoral Fellow, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University)

Love in the Time of Surveillance Capitalism

Wednesday, October 17 2018, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411 

Abstract:

This presentation will discuss how our intimate personal interactions and expressions of emotion online are being used by platforms in the service of surveillance capitalism.

About the speaker:

sava saheli singh is a postdoctoral fellow with the Surveillance Studies Centre, currently working on a knowledge...

Teens Talk Tech: Social Media and Families in the Digital Age

Mackintosh-Corry Hall Room B201

Interested in how social media use may be impacting your family?

Join Queen's University expert Valerie Michaelson, and the eQuality Project's Valerie Steeves as they explore how the rise of social networking has impacted:

  • interpersonal relationships
  • academic achievement
  • teen dating
  • bullying

You will also hear from a group of local teens who put away their smartphones for a week as part of the...

SSC Seminar Series: Rafael Evangelista (Professor, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil)

Surveillance, Capitalism and the Global South

Wednesday, October 3 2018, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411 

Abstract:

Surveillance capitalism is a global phenomenon, with ramifications around the world and different implications for specific regions, and to social and cultural contexts. It grows in places of weak urban regulation (Uber, Airbnb), low investments in education and infrastructure (Google Suite for Education), and...

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