And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

A new study from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute suggests that most of the popular benchmarking tools that are used to test AI performance are often unreliable and misleading. gizmodo.com/ai-capabilit...

"We lived in intense silent fear as an algorithm meticulously tore our family apart," the boy's mother says. "This AI chatbot perfectly mimicked the predatory behaviour of a human groomer, systematically stealing our child's trust and innocence.” www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

This is in two weeks join us in #Brussels for this great conversation! and don't forget to register. More information about the conference and project can be found here: futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/thicker... #humanrights #accountability

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Environmental protesters are facing extraordinary licence conditions more commonly associated in terrorism cases on release from prison, in another serious abuse of rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Dit is ook een gevolg van een cultuur van nonchalantheid mbt nieuwe technologieën in België

The review concluded racial harm was "maintained through a repeated institutional sequence" within the force. Report author Dr Shereen Daniels said racism and "anti-blackness" were systemic "institutional design" within the force. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New paper from the team behind the BRAID Scoping project "AI in the street": Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342

Beste @demorgen.be in dit artikel hebben jullie het over "wetenschappers" terwijl alle auteurs van het artikel in Nature medewerkers zijn van Sony. Kritische berichtgeving in de media over AI blijft een probleem. Artikel in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.demorgen.be/tech-wetensc...

"OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. The lawsuits filed Thursday in California state courts allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence."

By believing in the AI / AGI hype/conspiracy theory and uncritical adoption of genAI tools and integrating them in their policy and infrastructures, universities are accepting a new social order whereby ethics, law and scientific method are thrown out of the window for convenience and profit.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Mannheim Centre at the LSE is holding a PhD symposium in May '26. The details are here lse.ac.uk/social-polic... and I would encourage all interested PhD students to apply. Should be a great, great event

Mapping #surveillance in French-speaking Belgium. Great investigation @lesoir.be , le Vif, la Ligue des droits humains and Technopolice.be www.lesoir.be/709078/artic...

‘Walter Benjamin warned that fascism aestheticizes politics, turning domination into spectacle. AI operates similarly. We are trapped, engaging with the different varieties of AI spectacle instead of engaging with political urgency. Magicians call these kinds of options a “forced choice.”’

Ok,a very informal survey. I need suggestions as to the best UG programs in criminology, criminal justice, crime science internationally. Context: we need to persuade my Uni of what the contents have to be for our reformed program & need to arm myself with arguments and good examples

We wrote this because we kept getting asked about "AI". I'd much rather focus my energy on building tech that actually empowers people but instead I keep getting pulled into this delusional discourse about a fantastical future that'll never come. Your "AI" god is a lie. animikii.com/databack/und...

So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)

You know what's urgently needed? Basic software. Reliable database systems, accessible interfaces, privacy oriented design. It's super mundane stuff like asking, "how can software make your life better", not telling people "this is how software is going to solve all your problems." Because it won't.

We've got a logo for the Society for the Social Study of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference to be held in Toronto in October 2026! Theme of "TechnoPower & Technoscientific Futures"

📣 Join us 9-12 June in Lille, France for the 11th @survstudiesnet.bsky.social / Surveillance & Society Biennial Conference 2026 & submit your abstract before 10 January 2026! Theme is Planetary #surveillance Check out the call for abstracts here: surveillance-studies.net/conference/

Why do parents accept this and do these schools not respect children’s rights?

Join us in Brussels on Thursday 19 November for a great discussion with Sumi Madhok (LSE) and Başak Çali (University of Oxford) at the opening night of final conference of our iBOF-project Future-Proofing Human Rights: Developing Thicker Forms of Accountabilty. Registration form: shorturl.at/dx6ef

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This is in two weeks join us in #Brussels for this great conversation! and don't forget to register. More information about the conference and project can be found here: futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/thicker... #humanrights #accountability

Congratulations to our Stirling colleague, Prof William Webster, who is the new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner. Also great to see criminologist Dr @dianamiranda.bsky.social taking over as an Interim Director of @crispsurv.bsky.social 👏 #Surveillance www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/no...

Can't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner. 🌍 Planetary Surveillance 📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026 📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10 🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB Submit and join us!

It’s infuriating that the first time Milliman talked to Elser wasn’t to gather evidence or hear her side of the story, but to accuse her of a crime which he had already finished investigating. #rhizomaticharm

Het is dan ook intriest dat de Vlaamse overheid net dié middelen wegbespaarde die voor taalondersteuning bedoeld waren – op de Vrije Universiteit Brussel alleen gaat het om 5 miljoen euro ‘Brusselmiddelen’ die bruut weggesneden werden www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

Criminalising ecocide is about recognising that when ecosystems collapse, so too do the conditions for human dignity. icaruscomplexmagazine.com/ecocide-is-t...

It’s striking how with the emergence of “AI” scientific method and rigor in research has become of less importance to make claims about evidence

It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️ www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... #AI #reading #writing #philsky

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Die Jugendkriminalität ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich zurückgegangen. Trotz der Zuwanderung. Leider versuchen uns unterschiedlichste Player, gerade auch Medien, immer das Gegenteil zu erzählen. csl.mpg.de/886274/langf...

🚨 FINAL CALL The Open Call for candidates to serve on the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence closes on 31 October 2025 at 11:59pm ET. Learn more & submit before the deadline: 🔗 www.un.org/independent-... #AIGovernance #DigitalCooperation

📣 Join us 9-12 June in Lille, France for the 11th @survstudiesnet.bsky.social / Surveillance & Society Biennial Conference 2026 & submit your abstract before 10 January 2026! Theme is Planetary #surveillance Check out the call for abstracts here: surveillance-studies.net/conference/

POSSIBLE FUTURES WORKSHOP 🗣️ Looking for a fun, hopeful activity to stretch your imaginative muscle? 🌻 If you’re in the Seattle area, @dylnbkr.bsky.social will be hosting a free in person Possible Futures workshop on November 16 @ 2pm PST. 🪴 RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese... to attend.

Far right poised for victory ahead of elections in the Netherlands

Call for Abstracts / Panels PLANETARY SURVEILLANCE #SSN2026 – the 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference 9-12 June 2026 Université Catholique de Lille, France Details: surveillance-studies.net/conference/ Submissions (open soon): ssn2026.sciencesconf.org

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... #universiteit #hogeronderwijs

Travel data has historically been a correlative proxy. Early 2000s data mining used one way flights (*purchased third party) in terror algorithms. These apparent “errors” by HMRC illuminate machine learning logics: 1/ combine gov cloud data www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Lovely Bologna 😍 Very grateful for the invitation by the wonderful Giulia Fabini to give a keynote on more-than-human harms at the Institute for Legal Sciences at the University of Bologna.