Marc Schuilenburg

Fantastisch concert in Rotterdam van the Mozzer.

Politie stopt stilletjes met de ooit zo bejubelde misdaadvoorspeller CAS De Nederlandse politie is in alle stilte gestopt met het Criminaliteits Anticipatie Systeem, dat voorspelde in welke buurten het risico op criminaliteit het grootst is. Het besluit volgt op jarenlange...

Het enthousiasme was groot over misdaadvoorspellende AI-systemen. 'Misdaad voorspellen: het kan echt!' kopte NRC bv ooit. Nu heeft de politie het criminaliteits anticipatie systeem (CAS) in alle stilte stopgezet. Het werkte niet, maar bracht wel schade toe www.volkskrant.nl/tech/politie...

Politie stopt stilletjes met de ooit zo bejubelde misdaadvoorspeller CAS De Nederlandse politie is in alle stilte gestopt met het Criminaliteits Anticipatie Systeem, dat voorspelde in welke buurten het risico op criminaliteit het grootst is. Het besluit volgt op jarenlange...

De Nederlandse Politie is gestopt met het Criminaliteits Anticipatie Systeem (CAS). Met OxRec is dit in korte tijd het tweede voorspellende systeem in de strafketen dat is beëindigd. Interview in @volkskrant.nl over achtergrond van dit alles:

Publieksevenement: de “Slimme” Deurbel?! | Privacy First

Publieksevenement: de “Slimme” Deurbel?!
Op 24 maart as. organiseert het Slimme Deurbellen Consortium in Amsterdam een evenement over “slimme” deurbellen. Sprekers zijn o.a. @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social, Sander Flight en Renske Heijungs. Meer informatie en aanmelden: privacyfirst.nl/artikelen/pu...

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Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!

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I edited a Special Issue of European Journal of Policing Studies on “Lived Experiences in Digitalized Policing and AI Surveillance".

Featuring six empirical studies on AI-tools and public safety.

Here you can read the Introduction: ap.lc/IisrG.
And the complete SI: ap.lc/dwkYK.

"Geen onderwerp dat de zenuw van hysterie zo sterk raakt als de komst van nieuwkomers naar ons land."

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!

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown

Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.

A must listen for anyone interested how AI creates new surveillance opportunities.

‘Chasing the ideal gut’: Poop-tracking cameras claim to give health insights. Are they necessary? Products like Dekoda can run up to $600 and photograph your every bowel movement – but who owns that data?

Meanwhile, in luxury surveillance.

This one shoots pictures down at what is inside the bowl, sending the snaps to an app that analyzes stool samples and rates your gut health. The Dekoda can be yours for $599, plus an annual subscription fee.

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.

Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.

I can recommend this one, take care!

Erving Goffman: Memories, method and metaphors If you do sociology or, indeed, any social science whatsoever, you’ll come across the work of Erving Goffman. I have done too but never engaged with it as much as I should have done. This was…

Today's post delves a bit into the history of #sociology, memories of Erving #Goffman, and his use of #metaphor as method makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/26/e...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands.

Zet AI in voor een positief contact tussen politie en burger, bepleit hoogleraar Marc Schuilenburg van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in een rapport aan de politie.

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️Read Aleš Završnik's review of @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social's 'Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms.' Part of #TheoreticalCrim's Special Issue, guest-edited by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

These panels are part of a collection of 7 panels and a book panel on digital criminology at #EUROCRIM2025 that I have coordinated with Mareile Kaufmann and @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social #digitalcriminology #criminology #crimsky

De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren. 👉 buff.ly/eAsrAJ1

Because the twin is not a copy: On the politics of digital twins - Louise Amoore, 2025 This essay explores the changing form of the digital twin as a political technology in the age of deep learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI). It ...

My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren. 👉 buff.ly/eAsrAJ1

We laten Big Brother zelf binnen, volgens filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Bijvoorbeeld via de deurbel met camera De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren.

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Swasticars, Surveillance, and the Seductive Trap of Smartness: How Tesla Became the Luxury… In this post, Marc Shuilenburg and Yarin Eski reflect on their article ‘Data Sharing: A Case Study of Luxury Surveillance by Tesla’, which…

Swasticars, Surveillance, and the Seductive Trap of Smartness: How Tesla Became the Luxury Blueprint for Disciplinary Technology'.

In this blogpost, we discuss why we willingly share our personal data with private companies as Tesla.

Read it here: medium.com/surveillance...

How the Amazon Ring reframes mundane interactions into surveillance opportunities.

In the Spotlight: prof. dr. mr. Marc Schuilenburg Security, surveillance, AI, and public values, for Marc Schuilenburg, these are not abstract academic concepts. They are urgent societal challenges that demand critical, interdisciplinary, and engaged...

Interview on why lecturing is also a form of "accountability" and the need to be “in room” with AI tools. Criticizing is not enough anymore ...
www.centre-for-bold-cities.nl/news/in-the-...

Meanwhile, in the Tour de France.

Uitdagingen en gevoeligheden voor datagedreven politiewerk Grootschalige dataverzameling en artificial intelligence bieden de politie mogelijkheden om doelmatiger te werken. Maar er zijn ook uitdagingen, gevoeligheden en risico’s. In het rapport Navigeren in ...

Marc Schuilenburg is blij met de reactie van de politie. ‘De korpschef herkent niet alleen de door ons geïdentificeerde uitdagingen als het gaat om datagedreven werk en de toepassing van AI. Meer nog, zij onderschrijft ook onze aanbevelingen en gaat er mee aan de slag.’”

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Map of USA showing automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. From flock.ajith.fyi.

PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess.

Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz

In our new piece in @survstudiesnet.bsky.social, we unpack how Tesla and its car fleet became the blueprint for luxury surveillance, operating as machines that seduce users with innovation while quietly disciplining them.

You can read our article on the 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿 here: lnkd.in/eh6H8rry.

Knit, code, resist Feminist performative practices of non-fascist living with AI and law How does knitting, code, law, and women’s history of embodied and performative resistance come together? In this research…

How to resist digital surveillance of everyday life? Knit, Code, Resist.

Great initiative: matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-re...