Barcelona, May 2012

The website for the upcoming LiSS annual conference is up.

A pdf of the conference programme is available here

21-23 June 2012, Tübingen (Germany)

Further information available here

7-10 October 2012

Further information available here

Further information available here

Eds. Wright, D. and De Hert, P.

Further information available here

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 29-31 May 2012

Further information available here

Part One of a Special Issue of the journal Information Polity

Edited by Webster, Toepfer, Klauser and Raab

Further information available here

At the Law Science Technology & Society Research Group (LSTS).

A research centre at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Further information available here

Papers from the SSN-LiSS conference in May 2010.

A special Issue of the Journal Surveillance and Society

Further information available here

Revue Espaces Populations Sociétés

Further information available here 

Further information (in French) available here

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

University of Edinburgh, 3 to 5 July 2012

Further information available here

ICIL 2012, Corfu June 29-30, 2012,

Further information available here

Call for applications for LiSS Short-Term Scientific Missions

Further information available here

The International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities

University of Tübingen (Germany), 21-23 June 2012

Further information available here

Eds. Fuchs, Boersma, Albrechtslund and Sandoval

A new book emerging from LiSS Working Group 2.

Further information available here

A new project funded by the EU FP7 Programme.

Further information available here

Or contact Michael Friedewald

conference Technical University Berlin, April 5th and 6th 2011

The organizers are pleased to annouce the following confirmed keynote speakers on the Privacy and Accountability conference:

Colin Bennett, Paul de Hert, Charles Raab, Priscilla Regan.

Please mind the deadline for abstract submission, which is the 1st of
december. (details on

The first LiSS Newsletter has now been published and is available here

Organised by the Unified Theory of Information Research Group as part of the ‘Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society’ Austrian research project.

Further information is available here

The project website can be found

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/

A Special Issue on CCTV of the journal Information Polity

For more information see CFP

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