Professor Kirstie Ball will be delivering a seminar entitled: Institutional Trustworthiness and the Security-Privacy Trade-Off in Europe. The seminar takes place at 3.30pm on Friday 14th April in the Old Library, Psychology Building, University of St Andrews, building no 69 on the campus map.
Abstract:
Against a backdrop of declining public trust in government and a climate of...
As part of the Edinburgh Festival of Science, the Church of Scotland is hosting a discussion entitled 'Borders, Benefits and Biomedicine: Surveillance and Social Justice'. The event will take place in the Main Hall at Summerhall (Edinburgh, EH9 1PL) and begins at 20.00.
Together, the invited speakers and the audience will examine whether digital surveillance is impacting issues of...
Faith communities use surveillance technologies to protect their buildings and worshippers. Religious leaders sometimes use their equivalent of customer data management software to track attendance numbers or to better understand the profile of their community. Individual religious believers engage in surveillance of one another through social networking sites.
Surveillance technologies...
Professor Lilian Edwards, Professor in the field of Internet Law at Strathclyde University will be giving a seminar on 17th March entitled 'Slave to the algorithm? Awaiting the Law Cavalry.' The seminar is hosted by the Department of Computing and takes place in the Jack Cole building room 1.33b.
The abstract of the talk is as follows:
There is considerable current concern about...
Workshop, University of Stirling
CRISP is hosting a workshop to explore contemporary citizen-centred approaches to engaging citizens about their experiences of privacy in the digital world. The ways in which citizen participation and engagement are evolving in the digital world will also be explored. The workshop will feature a series of contributions from expert speakers. It is designed...
Visiting researcher Dr Tjerk Timan will deliver a seminar entitled 'Re-inventing privacy for the 21st century - why and how?' on Wednesday 15th February from 12 - 2pm. The seminar will be held in Lecture Room 2 in the School of Management, The Gateway Building, North Haugh, St Andrews.
Abstract
Due to novel ICTs, classical distinctions of spaces such as the home, the workplace, or...
CRISP lecture at University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Law assumes that matter is passive while mind is active. This assumption no longer holds. In her talk Hildebrandt will discuss some of the core issues raised in her book, Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law (2015). First of all, she will explain what she has called ‘a new animism’ that increasingly ‘drives’ commercial...
CRISP is hosting a panel at next year's Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Annual Conference entitled 'Privacy and the Quantified Self in Healthcare Settings'. The panel takes place from 11.45 to 13:00 in Maison Autrique at Les Halles conference centre.
QS has created new types of information about personhood, but unlike keeping a personal diary, electronic surveillance is an...
The Surveillance & Religion Network will hold a AHRC funded workshop to explore religion as an object of surveillance on 17th-19th of October 2016 in Birmingham, UK. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate dialogue amongst academic researchers, faith practitioners, and other stakeholders with a view to better understanding the issues arising now, and likely to be so in the immediate...
This lecture will examine contemporary issues associated with the governance of personal data in 'smart cities' and 'big data' environments.
Old Government Buildings,
Lecture Theatre 3,
15 Lambton Quay, Wellington
RSVP to e-government@vuw.ac.nz
