[Nettime-bold] Privacy Lecture Series - David Lyon, Nov. 12.2001

[Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>]

PRIVACY LECTURE SERIES
<http://privacy.openflows.org>

DAVID LYON

TERRORISM AND SURVEILLANCE SECURITY, FREEDOM, AND JUSTICE AFTER SEPTEMBER 
11 2001

Monday, November 12, 2001
6:00-7:30PM

140 St. George, Room 728
Faculty of Information Studies  (building adjacent to Robarts Library)
University of Toronto



Abstract:
In the wake of Sept.11 security has moved to the top of the political 
agenda. A host of new initiatives ranging from new legislation (Bill C-36) 
to the introduction of new technologies (ID cards for immigrants, CCTV 
surveillance of public spaces, biometrics) are currently developed and 
implemented. These measures aim at gathering more and better data on 
individuals, integrating this data into comprehensive profiles and make it 
easier for law enforcement agencies to act upon the gathered intelligence. 
In this talk, David Lyon will present a crictical perspective on 
"surveillance society" raising the question if it still can be a "just 
society."



Bio:
David Lyon is a Professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. David 
Lyon's research, writing, and teaching interests revolve around major 
social transformations in the modern world. Questions of the information 
society, globalization, secularization, surveillance, and postmodernity all 
feature prominently in his work.

His books include The Electronic Eye The Rise of Surveillance Society, 
Polity / Blackwell 1994, Surveillance Society Monitoring Everyday Life, 
Open University Press 2001, and a projected third volume on negotiating, 
resisting, and limiting surveillance. With Elia Zureik, David Lyon 
co-edited Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy, Minnesota, 1996. 
Surveillance as Social Sorting, edited by Lyon, will be published by 
Routledge in 2002. In a related area Lyon is currently writing a book on 
the sociology of cyberspace.

David Lyon is a member of the editorial boards of Information 
Communication, and Society, The American Behavioral Scientist, Information 
Technology, Education, and Society, and Science and Christian Relief.





To register for the Privacy Lecture Series announcement email list please 
go to <http://privacy.openflows.org>

The Privacy Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design 
Institute (KMDI) <http://www.kmdi.org/> and the Information Policy Research 
Program (IPRP) <http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/>

The Privacy Lecture Series is organized by:

Ana Viseu, a researcher currently working at the University of Toronto on 
her Ph.D. dissertation which focuses on the development and implementation 
of wearable computers. Her research interests include questions of privacy, 
social dimensions of technology, and the mutual adaptation processes 
between individuals and technology. Ana holds a Master's Degree in 
Interactive Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 
Spain. <http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~aviseu>

Robert Guerra who is currently establishing a new NGO whose mission will be 
to offer technological education and supopprt in privacy and security 
technology to Human Rights Organizations. He is also one of the Directors 
of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).



For more info contact:
Ana Viseu <aviseu@oise.utoronto.ca>


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