*This article was first published on the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies Blog, June 11th 2021 and is inspired by a seminar on workplace surveillance that took place on March 19th 2021. It implicitly quotes and paraphrases speaker Kirstie Ball*
Following a UK Supreme Court decision ruling that Uber drivers are in fact workers, Uber announced March 16th 2021 that its 70,000 drivers will...
Anuj Puri (left) and Jorge Campos (right)
Amidst the current doom and gloom of the third wave, CRISP has good news to share! Congratulations go to two of our doctoral students, Jorge Campos and Anuj Puri.
Jorge was recently awarded his PhD entitled 'The Dynamics of Data Donation', at the University of St Andrews. His thesis, supervised by Kirstie Ball and examined by Priscilla Regan and Fergus Neville, was described by the...
It's a book and a heart, because we love books
Hello everyone! It's book proposal time again!
Thanks to everyone who contacted us in the last call for proposals. We are currently working on some very exciting manuscripts which should be hitting the shelves very soon indeed.
As some of you may already know, CRISP runs a book series for Routledge entitled Routledge Studies in Surveillance. It's important to us that new, exciting...
2021 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration
EGPA Permanent Study Group I on e-Government
The 2021 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration will be held in Brussels, Belgium, from the 7th to the 10th of September 2021. The Conference is being organised by the EGPA/IIAS Secretariat in close cooperation with key partners. For this...
Ethical and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies
Deadline for abstracts extended to 17th May!!
Summary
Security issues will always be high on the public policy agenda. Persisting security threats, like terrorism and public safety, are complemented by new concerns, such as the emergence of technological solutions to manage the threat posed by...
Dr Daniel Trottier and his team at ERASMUS are proud to announce that this week they have launched their new MA In Digitalisation, Surveillance and Societies, beginning Autumn 2021. Apply for your place now!
The integration of digital technologies into a range of everyday practices create and perpetuate a number of contemporary and cross-sector issues that require better understanding...
University of Stirling, Friday 8th October 2021
Intellectual Property (IP) plays a crucial role in allowing uses of new technologies that are detrimental to society and preventing beneficial uses. IP is everywhere and lends itself to monopolise virtually anything. We may think we own ’our’ phone, but it factually belongs to the holders of the copyright on the code running on it, the...
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has awarded funding to create SCOTLIN, the Scottish Law and Innovation Network. CRISP is a core partner in the application and award, and the network will be led by Guido Noto La Diega (University of Stirling) Rossana Ducato (University of Aberdeen) and Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow).
SCOTLIN is a collaboration and knowledge exchange hub...
As the pandemic continues into 2021, we thought we’d have a look back at the counter covid contributions CRISP members made last year.
We start with Janis Wong, who has tackled data protection policy and practice relating to Online Learning brought about by the pandemic. Janis conducted empirical work which examined how a data commons approach could raise student awareness of data...
Essex CRISPer Daragh Murray has won a prestigious UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. He has been awarded over £1 million for an initial period of four years to examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted decision-making in government.
Daragh's research will focus on the unintended and surveillant consequences which arise from the use of AI in decision...
