travel grants for early stage researchers available
Emerging Issues in International Forensic Bioinformation Exchange Workshop King’s College London, 10-11 December 2010.
The workshop is supported by The Nuffield Foundation. It will address scientific, operational, ethical, societal, and regulatory dimensions of sharing forensic bioinformation for police purposes across borders.
Participation is free, but registration is required. Places are...
University of London, 11 October 2010
The Internet Identity Workshop is part of the Identity Commons.
Further information about the workshop can be found here www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-europe-london-october-11th/
Editors: Kevin Haggerty and Minas Samatas
'Surveillance and Democracy', edited by Kevin Haggerty and Minas Samatas and containing a number of chapters by LiSS experts, presents a sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy.
More information about the book can be found
Call for Participation May 12-15, 2011, University of Toronto, Canada
Digitally mediated surveillance (DMS) is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of daily life. As we work, play and negotiate public and private spaces, on-line and off, we produce a growing stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. CCTV cameras hosted by private and public actors survey and record our movements in public space, as well as in the...
call for papers
Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Otttawa, Canada
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
Submisson deadline: September 15, 2010
Recommended topics:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Technoethics and Cognition...
Call for Papers: A Special Issue of the Journal Information Polity
The call is available here
For more information contact the Guest Editor of the Special Issue:
Dr Eleanor Burt: eb19(at)st-andrews.ac.uk
Call for Papers
In 2011 Distinktion, the Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory will publish a Special Issue on 'fear'. The Call is available here.
For more information please contact the Editors of the Special Issue:
Thomas Lemke, <link...
27-29 October 2010, CERI Sciences, Paris
A three day workshop supported by the Leverhume Trust, Sciences-Po, Birbeck College, FP7 INEX and the LiSS COST Action.
Additional information can be found here
The workshop will be preceded by a doctoral workshop,
Call for Papers: 17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
May 26-29, 2011
University of North Texas
Denton, TX, USA
Deadline for abstracts: November 1, 2010
SPT 2011 welcomes high quality papers and panel proposals in all areas of philosophy of technology. Given the focus of this year's conference, papers and panels dealing with technology and security are especially welcomed. We encourage submissions from an...
A new book entitled 'Global Privacy Protection: The First Generation' edited by James R. Rule and Graham Greenleaf and containing a chapter by LiSS expert Ivan Szekely is now available in paperback. More information about the book can be found at: http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=13251
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BROAD (Broadening the Range of Awareness in Data protection) project video clips are now freely downloadable from the test version of the International PET Portal and Blog (http://pet-portal.eu/video). The videos present privacy and informational self-determination as a value in the information society or unmask privacy-invasive behavioral...
The Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society has published a new blog covering issues relating to privacy, data protection and surveillance.
The TILT blog is available at: http://vortex.uvt.nl/TILTblog/
PRESCIENT is a new European research project which aims to provide an early identification of privacy and ethical issues arising from emerging technologies and their relevance for EC policy.
For more information see the PRESCIENT website: http://www.prescient-project.eu/
An opportunity to undertake surveillance related doctoral research at the Open University Business School (UK) in conjunction with the 'New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting' project (Canada).
For further information see: http://www.open.ac.uk/oubs/our-different-approach/in-focus.php
Third International Law and Trade Conference (ILTC)
Will both be held in Barcelona, Spain, 3-5 November 2010.
For further information about these events see: http://www.iaitl.org
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an ‘invitation to tender’ for an analysis of developments in surveillance and data collection since the publication of the ICO’s report ‘A Surveillance Society’ in 2006. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2010.
For further information see the invitation to tender: <link...
Call for Papers
The 8th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP) will take place October 4-6, 2010, in Munich. The Call for Papers ends on April 7th, 2010. Possible topics include:...
The LiSS Website
Welcome to the Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS) Website. Here you will find information about the activities and people associated with the LiSS COST Action IS0807. You will also find a range of materials, links and other useful information relating to surveillance in everyday life.
LiSS is supported by:
