CRISP Directors Dr Lachlan Urquhart, Edinburgh Law School and Dr Diana Miranda, University of Stirling are part of an international team awarded SEK 4.8 million (around £366,00) by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet HS).
The team will study how police use of AI surveillance technologies, such as facial recognition, is reshaping privacy in Sweden and the UK.
The three...
CRISP is pleased to support the 2027 Privacy Symposium conference as an official partner
Save the date for the next edition of the Privacy Symposium in Venice, Italy: 26 - 30th April 2027. The conference will feature 100+ sessions with leading experts, authorities, and practitioners, supporting international dialogue, cooperation, and knowledge-sharing on data governance, regulatory...
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Dr Diana Miranda, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Stirling and Dr Lachlan Urquhart, Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at Edinburgh Law School who are both directors of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP), have been awarded funding by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research for their research project ...
CRISP researchers have been out and about at conferences this last month. Now we have unpacked our suitcases here is a quick round up of what we have been up to.
May 19 - 22 saw our involvement in Computers, Privacy and Data Protection. CRISP is a partner of the conference and always provides a panel. Edinburgh CRISP director Charles Raab is on the conference's Scientific Advisory...
A CRISP researcher has been recognised as a winner in the Research Impact category at the AACSB International Global Impact Awards. AACSB stands for the Association to Advance Colleges and Schools of Business and is a global accrediting body for Business Schools.
The research was authored by Kirstie Ball, CRISP St Andrews. Entitled 'Workplace Surveillance Reform' it has influenced how...
It's a book and heart because we love books
Hello everyone!
It's been a while since we've posted about the book series we run for Routledge. The series is entitled 'Routledge Studies in Surveillance'. It is still publishing manuscripts and we have a number of works in progress.
We'd like to take this opportunity to remind you about the series. It's important to us that new, exciting, book-length scholarship about...
CRISP is very proud to share the news that its director and co-founder Professor William Webster is the new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner for the UK. William officially began his role on the 1st November. He'll be responsible for promoting compliance with the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice, and overseeing the retention, use and destruction of DNA samples, DNA profiles...
A call for papers has been announced for the Surveillance and Privacy track at the UK Academy for Information Systems Conference (UKAIS 2026). The conference will be held at the University of Sheffield, UK, 9-10 April 2026. The track chairs are Dr Oliver G Kayas, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Dr Anand Sheombar, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands. The deadline for...
Guest editors
Vassilis Galanos, Lecturer, University of Stirling
Maarten Hillebrandt, Assistant professor, Utrecht University
Call for Papers
Disinformation tops many a list of most pressing issues. In a recent survey by the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report, experts placed it at the top of a ranking of most severe challenges for the coming two years (WEF...
CRISP would like to extend a warm welcome to Truman Venters, a PhD candidate in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
His PhD draws on the works of John Rawls to propose a notion of Political Justice for Information Societies. His areas of interest and research include Democracy, Constitutional Theory, Social Contract Theory, Global Justice, Digital/...
