Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use

New paper in @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social w/Kat Hadjimatheou on police digital intelligence/info platforms. Focuses on digital nuancing of policing, inc. form & temporalities of suspicion. Empirical & theorised through STS + Cohen's work; 'digital netwidening'. OA www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We’re hiring in criminology, sociology, social policy @sspcatsoton.bsky.social 1x Lecturer in Criminology: tinyurl.com/3ypv6ef3 1x 12 month Teaching Fellow in any area of Sociology, Social Policy or Criminology: tinyurl.com/37smc5as Come join our collegiate & inclusive dept, ranked #4 in UK REF

Turkey's crackdown on protesters: from Internet restrictions to facial recognition www.france24.com/en/live-news... @petefussey.bsky.social

@daragh.bsky.social & me discuss human rights implications of 'new' UK protest laws in the context of expanding surveillance in @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/banning-face...

In today's #FT on surveillance expansion in London. Beyond rights determinations, considering how professed public safety dividends are evidenced. During public spending cuts, questions arise over whether public safety best served via investment in untested technology. www.ft.com/content/29af...

Many thanks to Univ Côte d'Azur for opportunity to keynote this exceptional event +interact with scholars working on #facialrecognition in Europe & US. Organised by @clequesne.bsky.social who's excellent work on FRT & urban security highlights the quality of work existing outside anglophone debates

What a great event on law enforcement use of #FRT with fantastic presentations & provocative keynotes by @petefussey.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @evanselinger.bsky.social & closing words of Karen Yeung! Many thanks to wonderful @clequesne.bsky.social for the impeccable organisation! #AI

De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology now published as open access. I've written a short essay on #facialrecognition exploring how FRT structures & alters suspicion. The book is worth reading for the great range of essays in this developing area of criminology www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

BS probs the wrong forum but in my alternative (non-academic) life as a musician: Album launch/gig @ London's storied Water Rats (Kings X) Thursday (site of Dylan's 1st UK gig and Lenin's old watering hole!). Playing with some rudely talented musicians. All welcome! www.musicglue.com/blairjolland...

Co-facilitating this w/ @unhumanrights.bsky.social Special Procedures, @unisouthampton.bsky.social & European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law @rightscon.org #Taipei. Exploring implementation of human rights standards for police tech at protests we worked on last yr w/OHCHR UNODC SR FOAA. All welcome

Our research centre @crispsurv.bsky.social is hosting a major exhibition & series of events on Orwell. Starts with Hans K Clausen's 'The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth' at Stirling. Other events include a performance lecture by Bill Drummond (KLF), screenings, talks and more. All welcome

Join our team! 🤗 Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.

The U.S. legal saga of Clearview AI continues: 22 state attorneys general don't like the class action settlement that grants people in the database a stake in the company and are challenging it: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.

Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Had a lot of fun making this. Have spent most of my life playng music & v fortunate to have ended up collaborating with such talented musicians (& exceptional humans). None of whom on this platform yet, sadly... Blair's vox are just a thing of beauty www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p9b...

Interesting new documentary on #spyware #surveillance... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Very sad to learn of Phil's passing. Few did so much to reveal the inequalities arising from the transformation of E. London, a place we both loved & studied. V kind to me at the start of my career, a great scholar who's work always fell on the side of the angels en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Co...

I've started a new Critical Smart Cities Starter Pack. It's in very early stages and not really ready for wider use yet, not least because I can't find many smart cities scholars on here yet... so please suggest names! go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL

NSO – not government clients – operates its spyware, legal documents reveal.WhatsApp filed suit in California after it revealed that it had discovered that 1,400 of its users – including journalists and human rights activists – had been targeted by the spyware. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...