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  1. Post-doc position at University of Alberta

    The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2010 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. This is a one year term position with the possibility of renewal.

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  2. 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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  3. Congrats on OPC funding

    Congratulations to team members on their successful applications to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2010-11 Contributions Program.  

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. The Vancouver Statement

    A group of researchers who participated in the Surveillance Games Research Workshop Nov. 20-21 in Vancouver, B.C. have drafted a joint statement on security, surveillance and mega-events for public release.

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