1.Each yr we see 100s of killings for exercising the right to #protest. To avoid this we need proper tools to facilitate protests according to int/ standards rather than to suppress them. I’m encouraged by positive feedback& hope all will join forces for implementing these tools.

As a professional criminologist in my 26th year of living in #London I can confirm this is puerile nonsense Like Goldsmith's 2016 racist campaign, I suspect these desperate tactics will backfire; few actually living in London -eg "the electorate" - would recognise this depiction

Very pleased to have collaborated on this initiative with UN Human Rights UN Office on Drugs & Crime Daragh Murray and others.

Day 8 - #FacilitateProtests 🗣️Professor Pete Fussey of University of Essex emphasises the importance of clear guidance for #LawEnforcement on the use of #digitaltech in the context of p/ protests, to ensure their facilitation & protection of #HumanRights. ▶️bit.ly/4c7RjwX

UK Data Protection Digital Information #DPDI Bill House of Lords Committee stage. More robust scrutiny here than UK House of Commons. Good that our CRISP work ref'd but same govt arguments on #surveillance oversight remain weak & unevidenced Lords Committee on Justice and Home Affairs hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-04-…

AWO is pleased to share our new report, ‘Quantum Computing and the Global South’, commissioned by Joris van Hoboken at @IViR_uva.👇 buff.ly/3JAFgLA

📣 Exciting news! Today, we're launching 'Evaluating Digital Open Source Imagery: A Guide for Judges & Fact-Finders’, available in EN FR ES AR UKR. More in this article by Raquel Vazquez Llorente Daragh Murray & Sarah Zarmsky: opiniojuris.org/2024/05/20/eva… #DigitalEvidence #OSINT

To aid the Big Brother Watch campaign to contact MPs and ensure that the DPDI Bill is not included in "washup" I have published my last blog on the DPDI Bill. Hopefully it is my last blog on this, but at the end I show this might not be the case. See amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/2024…

Hard to think of a govt more harmful to teenager prospects; secure job contracts (Cameron)/freedom of movement (Brexit/Erasmus)/education (Gove)/economic stability & property ownership (Johnson/Truss). Sunak w/jawdropping chutzpah to claim this is for them theguardian.com/politics/artic…

#BiometricsScotland "Biometrics in Criminal Justice" yesterday in Edin was a great opportunity to continue discussions on tech use, oversight, and impacts on public trust. &Great to see academics in a conference with such a diverse audience 👩‍⚖️👮‍♀️⚖️ Pete Fussey Prof Marion Oswald, MBE

My thoughts are with Goldsmiths colleagues this weekend who are waiting to find out who will receive redundancy notices on Monday. Please share - on why this matters to anyone who believes in the transformative power of education.

Two PhD studentships (Law & Computer Science) - open for applications, to conduct novel & interdisciplinary research that aligns with Responsible Ai UK PROBabLE Futures Keystone Project themes. Application deadline 31 Oct, 2024 findaphd.com/phds/project/p… and findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

This National Academies report on #FacialRecognition worth a read. Interesting recommendations on risk/impact assessments: this is key feature of forthcoming book on LFR by Pete Fussey and me 1/ nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27397/…

We are saddened to learn of major redundancies at the Dept of Sociology at Goldsmiths as well as other universities. We join with The BSA and other Sociology Depts across the nation in expressing and sending support and solidarity to our colleagues.

A privilege to see Tim Newburn accept his Lifetime achievement award from British Society of Criminology in Glasgow tonight. A true inspiration and basically, such a nice man British Society of Criminology Conference 2024 Tim Newburn Adam Crawford Professor Layla Skinns ● Kieran Walsh

Join Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network! You can be a regular or voting member to elect the board. We have some exciting projects coming up, including an annotated bibliography of surveillance literature from the majority world! Pls Share! surveillance-majority-world.net/membership/

I will be talking about my forthcoming book - Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age - at *2pm tomorrow* as part of CRISP online seminar series. Details and info on how to join below👇

Had a lot of fun making this - Beautiful vocals from Blair Jollands + Nigerian gospel choir, lovely arrangement. Special appearance from Lemkin the Dachshund... "Don't Cry" on MARRS records youtu.be/k0zNdrVfKAM?fe… via YouTube

Work news: Leaving University of Essex after 14 happy years to take up Prof of Criminology + Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology University of Southampton UoS Faculty of Social Sciences. Many thanks to excellent colleagues Criminology @ Essex Human Rights Centre Sociology @ Essex & warmest wishes for the future.

The excellent folks at POST (UK Parliament) have just published a POSTNote on #biometric data misuse, use & collation post.parliament.uk/research-brief… with contributions from Dr Nora Ni Loideain Schneier Blog Mark Elliott Pete Fussey Big Brother Watch Ada Lovelace Institute & other very smart people