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  1. SSC and NewT welcome new Research Associate

    Sarah Cheung has taken over the role of Research Associate from Emily Smith, who has begun a year-long maternity leave.

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  2. SSC awarded OPC funds

    The Surveillance Studies Centre is a recipient of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2010- 11 Contributions Program, which funds privacy research and public education initiatives. The SSC project is entitled The Private Sector, National Security and Personal Data and will examine the role of the private sector in Canadian national security programs at the border and in airports. 

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  3. Book on GPD International Survey Results Published!

    Surveillance, Privacy, and the Globalization of Personal Information: International Comparisons now available from McGill-Queen’s University Press.

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  4. Cities Under Seige

    Congratulations to Stephen Graham on his new publication Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, Verso, May 2010.

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  5. Post-doctoral fellowship

    on Surveillance and Security: “Exploring U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fusion Centers."

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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  6. New Deep Packet Inspection website

    A new website on deep packet inspection in Canada is now online: www.deeppacketinspection.ca. Deep packet inspection is a networking technology that ISPs use to garner actionable network intelligence about their customers' data traffic.

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  7. New Book - Surveillance Society in the Global South

    Congratulations to Nelson Arteaga Botello on his recent publication Sociedad de la vigilancia en Sur-Global (Surveillance Society in the Global South) Mexico: Miguel Angel Porrua and UAEM, 2009.

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  8. Call for Papers: The Political Economy of Surveillance

    A Research Workshop
    Open University Business School, UK
    Sept 9 – 12 2010

    500 word abstracts for original academic papers on the Political Economy of Surveillance
    should be sent to the co-organizers: Dr Kirstie Ball, Open University Business School
    and Professor Laureen Snider, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University. The deadline for proposals is April 30th, 2010.

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  9. PhD Studentship

    The Open University Business School in conjunction with The New Transparency project invites applications for a PhD scholarship, based at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, in its ESRC recognized Research Degrees Programme.

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  10. Research Associate position

    The Surveillance Studies Centre is seeking a Research Associate (12 month contract).

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