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Dear all, For those of you in Brussels next week for the CPDP2014 conference (http://www.cpdpconferences.org) or for other reasons the following debate moderated by Ben Hayes from Statewatch might interest you: 22 January 2014 20h BACK TO THE FUTURE? UNDERCOVER POLICE, CITIZEN COPS AND CORPORATE SPIES Panel: Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian (UK), Gemma Galdon Clavell, University of Barcelona (ES), Gary T Marx, MIT (US), Eveline Lubbers, University of Bath/Spinwatch (UK), Paul Ponsaers, University of Ghent (BE) With all the focus on an ever expanding array of high-tech and ³big data² based forms of surveillance it is easy to forget that traditional forms of covert surveillance and human intelligence gathering remain challenged and can be as privacy-invasive. Recent exposés of undercover policing in Britain and the USA and corporate espionage against NGOs and activists in Europe clearly illustrate this. Furthermore, toward the latter part of the 20th century citizens in Europe and the US are increasingly responsibilised for their own security and outsourced by police for surveillance through neighbourhood watch schemes, if you see something report it campaigns, not to mention traditional vigilante groups and police informers. Roles between public and private, citizens and police are becoming increasingly blurred. The panel will discuss new developments in these policing practices and explore some of the social, ethical and legal issues that accompany them. More information: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/SideEvents.html Best wishes, Rosamunde -- Rosamunde van Brakel PhD candidate/Researcher Law, Science, Technology & Society Studies (LSTS)/Crime & Society (CRiS) Faculty of Law & Criminology Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussels Belgium Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/members/vanbrakel/ **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <[log in to unmask]>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************