Conference β Surveillance Studies Network
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PLANETARY SURVEILLANCE
#SSN2026 β the 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference
9-12 June 2026
UniversitΓ© Catholique de Lille, France
Details: surveillance-studies.net/conference/
Submissions (open soon): ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
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Come work with me: PhD Position
In the Working group Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (CΒ³S) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, which focuses on geographical, political, and/o...
Come work with me at the wonderful Center for Critical Computational Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt!
You will define your own PhD project within the field of critical data and surveillance studies, with a focus on countries of the Majority World.
azadeh-akbari.com/come-work-wi...
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This is getting interesting. Why is it dark anyway?
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The ultimate central Ottawa Foodie Guide
My EU Marie SkΕodowska-Curie global fellowship was hosted by the University of Ottawa, and I spent a lot of time throughout 2024 and 2025 in this city. My driverβs license was stolen one day before my...
On a Sunday note: here is my ultimate central Ottawa Foodie Guide! As an EU Marie SkΕodowska-Curie global fellow at the UOttawa, I spent a lot of time throughout 2024&5 in this city. This guide aims to liberate you from the shackles of Tim Horton & other chains with sad food.
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These are important reports + the news about China piloting village surveillance in Solomon Islands; China is exporting comprehensive surveillance packages now with marketing slogans of stability and security. They had done this before with all 'safe' city programs.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces β both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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@dimasamaro.bsky.social
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | June 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
π£ Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for June 2025 is out!
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A zoom screenshot: to the right an image of Azadeh who is wearing a white top and to the left is a screenshot of the presentation slide about authoritarian smart city
First speaker is @azadehakbari.bsky.social discussing Authoritarian Smart Cities focusing on the politics of smart cities via digital development dilemma and authoritarianism. Tech is evolving but securitisation continues & we must consider discourse, practices, infrastructures
#DGRGSymposium2025
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Peonis make me so happy. They are still not out in Canadaβ¦
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Itβs just sad to see such techniques being used in a βdemocracyββ¦ Iβm watching the protests and I know the US history will change forever if the first bullet is shotβ¦
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | May 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
Surveillance in the Majority World's May Newsletter is out! featuring:
- Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25
- Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
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Already excited about the Surveillance Studies conference next year. The team in Lille are the most hospitable and kind group of people! Join us for #SSN2026
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The president can announce new election instead of relaxing the majority mandate π€·π½ββοΈ
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Iβm attending Digital Rights & Inclusion Forum in Zambia and these two just decided to attend, too! Best part was that I was the only dumb tourist taking photos; everyone else was very chill about zebras on the lawn π€―
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Finally!
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And also parts of their eugenicist minds: those poor people who canβt afford young blood (literally what they inject) are prone to the natureβs selectionβ¦
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Every single country has a trade deficit because of all US America companies who got rich on our stolen data.
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Apr 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
π£Our April Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
- Moroccoβs Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events
- Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
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Quite interesting that a crazy person is a she, in a world thatβs run mostly by crazy men. I know this isnβt the point but it just annoyed me.
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Actually, they did! Proudly: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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I had to laugh at βLevitsky probably wouldβve spent his career in relative obscurity, writing academic tomes about political parties in Argentinaβ. He is quite well-known in authoritarian studies & obviously he couldnβt remain silent. Americans still think authoritarianism only happens to βothersβ
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YouTube video by WIRED
How Governments Spy On ProtestorsβAnd How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
NEW: In the latest episode of the YouTube series I host, @lhn.bsky.social joins me to get into the nitty gritty of surveillance against protesters and steps you can take to protect yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...
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Thanks a lot!
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Professor of Political Economy, Labour and resistance to exploitation. Blogs at http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk Views my own!
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Undisciplined geographer @qmulgeog. Researching work, energy and coloniality. Teaching urban African economies and global working lives
Programme Director at CDT Europe, Security, Surveillance & Human Rights.
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Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Lawyer working on human rights, technology, spyware, litigation, Russia and Eastern Europe.
Currently Senior Tech-Legal Counsel at Access Now. Formerly OSINT investigator and prosecutor.
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
PhD student at the University of Edinburgh researching how AI EdTech in India gets built. PhD fellow at the Centre for Technomoral Futures. Ex-software engineer. Keralite, Boulderite, and many things in between.
PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | π https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
postdoc @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
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Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Films: Breached/Machines in Flames. Book (forthcoming): Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press).
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