The latest issue of the journal Cultures & Conflits (76) has just been published. Edited by IdentiNet participants Dider Bigo and Pierre Piazza, and featuring a contribution from IdentiNet participant Ilsen About, the issue explores ‘Fichage et Listing’, and contains French-language articles on the transnational traffic in personal data, the control of mobility, and the challenges of achieving a balance between public safety and civil liberties. Abstracts (free) and articles can be accessed online via the journal website.
Posts Tagged 'technology'
Special Issue: Fichage et Listing
Published May 21, 2010 Member Activities , Publications Leave a CommentTags: Civil Liberties, Europe, France, Migration, Policy, Privacy, Registration, Security, technology
Study Day: Surveillance and the Street
Published February 26, 2010 Conferences Leave a CommentTags: CCTV, Civil Liberties, Public Space, Surveillance, technology
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A study day on ‘Surveillance and the Street’ will take place at the University of Bath on 19 March 2010. Organized under the auspices of ‘Street Life and Street Culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the Present’, which is funded by the AHRC as part of the Beyond Text initiative, the study day will consider themes relating to surveillance and technology as they impinge upon and inform the public space of the street. For participants and programme information, see the study day flyer (pdf). Those wishing to participate should e-mail Claire Hogg (C.Hogg@bath.ac.uk) by 8 March.
CFP: The Political Economy of Surveillance
Published February 26, 2010 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: CCTV, Civil Liberties, Corporate, Surveillance, technology
A workshop on ‘The Political Economy of Surveillance’, jointly organized by The New Transparency Major Collaborative Research Initiative and the Living in Surveillance Societies COST action, is currently seeking papers. The workshop, which will be held at the Open University Business School (Milton Keynes) on 9-12 September 2010, will explore the dynamics of the international surveillance industry, and abstracts are encouraged to address a wide range of topics relating the nature and extent of the surveillance industry and its relationship to the private and public sectors, the military, technological developments, and regulatory bodies. The deadline for the submission of 500-word proposals is 30 April 2010; for further details and submission instructions, see the websites of the organizing projects.
CCTV Takes to the Skies
Published January 25, 2010 News Stories Leave a CommentTags: Britain, CCTV, Civil Liberties, Crime, Military, Policing, Security, Surveillance, technology
'Guardian Spirit of the Waters', by Odilon Redon (1878). Wikimedia Commons.
The Guardian and The Telegraph newspapers ran stories this weekend reporting that UK police are planning to use unmanned ‘spy drones’, originally developed for surveillance in military contexts, to monitor antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves, and fly-tippers. According to the reports, an arms manufacturer is currently developing the so-called Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) – capable of taking high-resolution images from heights of up to 20,000ft – for civilian deployment, and that the drones could be in use by local forces in time for the London Olympics in 2012. For the full reports, see here (Guardian [includes video and comments]) and here (Telegraph).
Seminar: Foucault, Databases, and the Dispositif
Published January 21, 2010 Member Activities , Seminars Leave a CommentTags: DNA Databases, Europe, Foucault, Policing, Profiling, Security, Surveillance, technology, Twentieth Century
The first ‘brown bag lunch’ IPS discussion seminar will take place at King’s College London on Thursday 28 January 2010. Co-organised by IdentiNet participant Didier Bigo, discussion will be introduced by a presentation from Andrea Molteni (University of Milan) on the functioning of the concept of the dispositif within the work of Michel Foucault, which will go on to consider its relevance to the analysis of DNA databases, especially within the Italian context (a full abstract is available here). Wine will be provided, and participants are encouraged to bring along their own sandwiches. The seminar will take place from 12.30pm–2.30pm in the War Studies meeting room, which is on the sixth floor of the King’s Building on Strand Campus (map). If you wish to attend, please confirm with andrea.molteni@kcl.ac.uk. Picture: Flickr/dullhunk (CC)
Seminar: Security, Dataveillance and Databases
Published September 29, 2009 Seminars Leave a CommentTags: Europe, Profiling, Registration, Security, Surveillance, technology, Twentieth Century, United States
The second seminar of the research group SUERTE (Sécurité, Union européenne et relations transatlantiques) will take place in Paris on 15 October 2009 on the theme of ‘Security, Dataveillance, and Databases’. Discussion will focus on current databases in the United States and the European Union; on the agencies and services that have access to databases; on the networks that are formed around the exchange of information; and on the relationship between data collection, security, profiling, and risk management. For further details, see the seminar flyer (pdf).
CFP: Identity and Organizations (IDIS10)
Published September 28, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, Globalisation, ID Cards, Identity Theft, Legal Frameworks, Policy, Privacy, Security, Surveillance, technology, Twentieth Century
The third Identity in the Information Society Workshop (IDIS10), to be held in Rome on 26-28 May 2010, has just issued its call for papers on the theme of ‘Identity and Organizations’ (public or private, local or global, formal or informal). Topics might include, but are not limited to: new identity technologies; emerging practices enabled by identification processes; changing notions of identity; information and identity risks; surveillance and privacy issues; and regulatory and legal implications. The deadline for the receipt of full papers (4,000-6,000 words) is 10 December 2009; for further information and submission guidelines visit the workshop website.
Member Publication: Identifying Citizens
Published July 30, 2009 Member Activities , Publications Leave a CommentTags: Civil Liberties, ID Cards, Surveillance, technology, Twentieth Century
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance, a new study by IdentiNet member David Lyon, has just been published. The book takes a historical, comparative, and sociological look at citizen-identification, and argues that the proliferation of ID card systems around the world represents a distinctive new phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to find stable ways of identifying citizens. It concludes that the widespread implementation of ID cards is both likely and, without safeguards, troublesome, though not necessarily for the reasons most commonly proposed. For further details and ordering information, see the Polity website.
Special Issue: Traceability and Networks
Published May 7, 2009 Member Activities , Publications Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, France, Policing, Privacy, Registration, Social Networks, technology, Twentieth Century
The French social science journal Hermès has dedicated its April issue (number 53) to the timely theme of ‘Traceability and Networks’. Articles explore the tracking of personal information across a wide range of social and technological contexts, and pay particular attention to the privacy implications of electronic data collection, ‘Web 2.0′ applications and online social networks. IdentiNet member Pierre Piazza has also contributed an article on the expansion of police records in recent decades, and the increased potential for administrative dysfuction and misuse of personal data that this has entailed. An overview of the issue’s contents can be found here (pdf), while detailed abstracts (with English translations) can be found here (pdf). Picture: xtof/flickr (CC)
UK ID Cards to be Piloted in Manchester
Published May 7, 2009 News Stories Leave a CommentTags: Britain, Civil Liberties, ID Cards, Policy, Registration, technology
Manchester has been named as the first UK city in which residents will be able to voluntarily acquire a government ID card. As of autumn 2009,
any of the city’s permanent residents over the age of 16 in possession of a valid passport will be able to apply to the Home Office’s Identity and Passport Service for the document, which will cost £30 in the first instance. It is anticipated that the cards will be available nationwide from 2012, at a projected total cost of £5bn. For more details, see BBC News. Picture: Wikimedia Commons
