David Lyon, FRSC

David Lyon is the Principal Investigator of the New Transparency Project and Director of the Surveillance Project. He is also Queen's Research Chair in Sociology and holds a Killam Research Fellowship 2008-2010. His latest books are Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance (Polity 2009), Playing the Identity Card (co-edited with Colin J. Bennett, Routledge, 2008) and Surveillance Studies: An Overview (Polity 2007). Professor Lyon has been working on surveillance issues since the 1980s, when he discussed surveillance as one of the key issues of information-based societies in The Information Society: Issues and Illusions (Polity 1988). Since then he has been involved in many debates over information politics and policy in Canada and around the world as a result of his research and publications including The Electronic Eye (1994), Surveillance Society (2001) and Surveillance after September 11 (Polity 2003). He is a founding editor of the e-journal Surveillance & Society and has particular research interests in national ID cards, aviation security and surveillance and in promoting the cross-disciplinary and international study of surveillance.

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Faculty website: http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=people/faculty/full-time/lyond