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Posted Nov 9th 2023

Join colleagues at Erasmus University in April 2024 to engage in thought-provoking discussions that explore the intricate relationship between surveillance, chilling impacts, new technologies, and their consequences

The widespread integration of AI into surveillance technologies within the realm of public safety has become increasingly prevalent, exemplified by the likes of biometric...

Posted Oct 30th 2023

Independent report on changes to the functions of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commisoner arising from the Data Protections and Digital Innovation (No.2) Bill 2023.  By Professor Pete Fussey and Professor William Webster.

Press Release from the Biometrucs and Surevillance Camera Commisioner:

A new report points to a ‘worrying vacuum’ in government plans to safeguard...

Posted Oct 11th 2023

Tianqi Bi is a new PhD student at the University of Edinburgh Law School working on designing trustworthy ways of sharing data. She is supervised by Dr Lachlan Urquhart and Professor John Vines. Her research involves cross-disciplinary aspects of data law and interaction design. She aims to explore how to take citizens' digital rights from theory to reality and facilitate trustworthy data...

Posted Oct 9th 2023

Mariana Canto is a PhD Candidate at the University of Stirling where she is part of the interdisciplinary cluster on Democracy, Human Rights and Communication/Advocacy in the Digital Age and is supervised by Dr. Damian Etone, Dr. Professor William Webster, Professor Rowan Cruft, and Dr Edit Freyo. She investigates how the recent increase in scrutiny regarding legal mechanisms to control the...

Posted Oct 3rd 2023

This new report presents research from the ‘Critically Exploring Biometric AI Futures’ project. This short project was led by CRISP Director Dr Lachlan Urquhart at the University of Edinburgh with co-lead and CRISP Member Dr Diana Miranda at the University of Stirling, and a research team of Dr Irena Connon (University of Stirling) and Dr Alex Laffer (now University of Winchester).

The...

Posted Sep 30th 2023

Stuart Kerr is a PhD student at Coventry University, under the supervision of Assistant Professor Evronia Azer and Professor Sally Dibb. His research project is on Technologically-enabled monitoring, privacy and datafication of UK homeworkers.  

Stuart has a long-standing interest in optimal performance management that has grown...

Posted Sep 12th 2023

The 2023 European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) Permanent Study Group 1: eGovernance Best Paper Award has been awared to Isabelle Fest from Utrecht University for her paper titled 'The doings behind data: An ethnography of police data'.  The award is sponsored by IOS Press and Information Polity, and celebrates the written work of early career scholars.

Congratulations Isabelle...

Was Rahman
Posted Aug 8th 2023

Was Rahman is a PhD student at Coventry University, under the supervision of Professors Sally Dibb and Maureen Meadows. His PhD investigates AI fairness in business decision-making.  

Was has a long-standing professional and academic interest in how we enable, assure and govern ethical use of technologies, especially those that evolve more quickly than laws and regulations controlling...

Posted Aug 8th 2023

CSI-COP, funded under the EU Horizon2020 ‘science with and for society (SwafS)’ programme, is a citizen science project coordinated by Coventry University.

The international project involves engaging the general public through a free informal education course, ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’ (MOOC), to investigating GDPR compliance in...

Posted Aug 8th 2023

Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance

By Ariane Ollier-Malaterre

CRISP edited Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series

Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This...

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