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NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal. This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial. techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/fac…

"Facial recognition technology is making the act of protest riskier than ever, putting demonstrators at greater risk of persecution, exacerbating the targeting of minority groups, and changing the way people express dissent."

It’ll be interesting to see these arguments tested in court, and if the groundswell of these types of lawsuits in North America can actually force Big Tech’s hand to change these apps for the better.

Pleased to report that I passed my defence and am officially done my PhD!

Outrageous. "A WIRED analysis of the top 10,000 most popular websites shows that dozens of sites say they are sharing data with more than 1,000 companies, while thousands of other websites are sharing data with hundreds of firms." #AIEthics #privacy #ads wired.com/story/cookie-p…

Police—with power to kill, detain, or deny people’s freedom—shouldn't be allowed to outsource their official narratives to technology in a way that makes them less subject to critique, transparency, or accountability, EFF’s @MGuariglia told @404MediaCo. 404media.co/here-is-what-a…

Thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta’s Department of Sociology UofA Sociology! I can’t wait to expand my research and teaching at the intersection of criminal justice and technology!

An excellent resource created by a dear friend! Applicable to all genres of scribbles, but especially useful for undergraduate writing. Give it a peep!

NEW: by Kate Robertson and me in the The Globe and Mail "Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance" theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes The poorer the neighborhood, the more exposure residents faced wired.com/story/the-age-…

Proud congratulations to our new #CrimSL PhDs Alexander Luscombe (Supv Akwasi Owusu-Bempah) and Daniel Konikoff (Supv Beatrice Jauregui)! We look forward to celebrating you and JD/MA grads Andrea Almeida-Paska and Hayley Vandepol at our Spring 2024 #Convocation Reception today! #UofTGrad24

As part of my research agenda, I've been thinking about the various harms caused by genAI. I'm super happy to share my working paper on the need for climate change considerations in AI governance I wrote during my fellowship CIGI Digital Policy Hub cigionline.org/publications/a…

Honoured to have gotten to work on this in my brief time at Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and very grateful for Gerald Chan for putting together such a strong intervention! "The SCC confirmed that Ontario public school board teachers are protected by s. 8 of the Charter in the workplace."

Even police chiefs don’t know if their officers are using AI-assisted police reports. #AI #tech #law politi.co/3ALePS4 via POLITICO

I’ll be teaching a second-year course on Surveillance Studies next semester and I’m looking for suggestions as I put together my syllabus! Readings, weekly topics, guest speakers, truly anything 👀

Congratulations to Dr. Wumi Asubiaro Dada 'Wumi Asubiaro-Dada who successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Mai Kariya (Female Protectors): The Evolving Role of Women in Conflict in Kaduna State, Nigeria," on September 27, 2024! uoft.me/aVz Supv: Kamari Clarke Kamari Maxine Clarke

My dissertation, "Automating the Thin Blue Line: Controversy, Knowledge, and the Governance of Police Technology in Canada," is available on ProQuest. If you're interested, feel free to give it a read: proquest.com/docview/311009…

New from me Social Forces📘. I argue that defining the far-right as "illiberal" is inaccurate: these movements often make gains capitalizing on liberalism's ambiguity & contradictions. Far-right studies should consider liberal chauvinism a radicalizing force.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

Social media is now everywhere, incl in #policing! New platforms = new opportunities for study. #TikTok = popular platform centered around creating/sharing/watching videos. 👮 In new article, my mentee and I examine the police’s use of TikTok: doi.org/10.1177/146135… A 🧵 1/3