School III, St Salvators’s Quadrangle, St Andrews University
Abstract:
Over 30 years ago, when cyberneticist Stafford Beer proclaimed ‘my electronic image in the machine may be more real than I am’, he was signalling his concern with the impact of personal information processing on human dignity, autonomy and identity. Since then, large scale personal Information processing has...
CRISP will be hosting a panal at the 2019 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference in Brussels in January on the topioc of Smart City Governance.
Topic Area:
Smart City (SC) developments are embedding digital technologies is all aspects of urban life. Typically, the focus is more efficient services and better-informed policy-making. The SC umbrella covers a range of...
Book review and discussion.
Thinking Alllowed, BBC Radio 4, with Laurie Taylor, discusses the new book 'Surveillance and Democracy in Europe' (edited by Kirstie Ball and William Webster). Programme features a conversation with Professor Kirstie Ball (CRISP St Andrews) and Professor David Lyon (Surveillance Studies Centre).
Surveillance and Democracy in Europe (Routledge Studies in...
Hosted by CRISP
Hotel du Vin, St Andrews
Speakers
Dr Emmeline Taylor - I Spy AI: Growing Up in the Age of SurveillanceProf Lydia Plowman and Dr Andrew Manches - The Internet of Toys: Data and PrivacyCarole Ewart - Children: Privacy, Access to Information and Human Rights - Enabling a Balanced ApproachDr Elena Beratarbide - Scottish Citizens privacy: National Approaches to...
CRISP/MWO Research Seminar
13.00-14.30, Room 2A13, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling
Abstract
Data literacy is an emergent field in Science and Technology Studies. In a world where entire economies, communications infrastructure and media ecosystems are datafied, current understanding of data literacy’s centrality to everyday life remains variable. Such an...
Kirstie Ball will deliver a lecture entitled "Surveillance, Institutional Trustworthiness and Security Governance" at the John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. The lecture begins at 1800 and takes place at Habelschwerdter Allee 45 in room Hörsaal 1b.
The lecture features as part of the institute's "Surveillance and Social Order:...
Design Informatics and CRISP Seminar
The concept of the Internet of Things has a long history and, at least academically, has been discussed under a variety of headings: ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, and cyber-physical systems. While these terms and the idea of the IoT have hazy borders, commercial deployment of purpose- built devices with onboard sensors, networking and...
CRISP Director, Professor William Webster, will chair the Westminster Briefing workhop reviwing the progress of the National Surviellance Camera Strategy. Speakers include Tony Porter, the Surveillance Camera Commisioner and T/Superintendent Simon Corbin, the CCTV lead at the Metropolitan Police.
Further information about the event is available here.
CodeBase, Stirling, Scotland, 27–28 September 2018
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr Federica Frabetti (University of Roehampton)
“UNDOING DATA: TOWARDS AN ETHICS AND POLITICS OF OPEN DATA”
Dr Martin Poulter (Wikimedian in Residence, University of Oxford)
“WORKING IN A WORLD OF OPEN DATA”
ABOUT the RSE Life in Data Research Network
The RSE Life in Data Network is a...
12th and 13th September 2018
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
CRISP Directors Professor Charles Raab and Professor William Webster will be speaking at the Institute of Philosophy’s symposium on ‘Privacy in the New Public Sphere, its Value and its Threats’.
Abstract
This conference will focus on the value of privacy in contemporary society, and the threats it...
