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Rikke Bjerg-Jensen and I are co-chairing the USENIX Security 2023 posters! Submission deadline is in 45 hours (july 7 04:59 AM PDT/July 6, 12 am, AoE). HotCRP Link: sec23posters.usenix.hotcrp.com Poster submission details: usenix.org/conference/use…

Our latest collection, "Leaving the Field" is out! Tales of ethnographic exits, covering a range of topics such as field relations, situated ethics, representation and questionings of 'the field' itself Manchester University Press #CardiffSchool #Ethnography manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157652/…

1/ Lords are set to debate #encryption today. An opposition amendment seeks to provide judicial oversight to the Ofcom #spyclause powers to force providers to snoop on our messages. This amendment 257 'Approval of notices by Judicial Commissioners' would provide some oversight.

Requiring a "skilled person" write a report before mass surveillance is imposed does little Especially given that the UK gov HAS ALREADY heard from hundreds of "skilled" experts restating longstanding consensus: there's no such thing as a safe backdoor. bbc.com/news/technolog…

🚨Call for Participants: States of Precarity🚨 The use of fixed-term contracts is widespread in UK HE Geography but it's effects (long & short term) are not well understood. This project seeks to address this by exploring experiences of precarity across UK academic geography🧵

🚨An extremely wide range of experts have warned against the misguided & dangerous measures in the European Commission's Child Sexual Abuse Material Regulation #CSAR. See the summary below. ↩️ Like this thread and pass it on!🧵 #StopScanningMe

The Online Safety Bill will have its third reading in the House of Lords on Wednesday. From what I can gather, it is expected to pass. This is quite worrying for online safety. A thread.

WOW, indeed!

The HEC has called five days of strike action later this month from Monday 25 to Friday 29 September. ucu.org.uk/article/13171/…

1/4 🚨#FacialRecognition in public spaces turns us all into walking barcodes. EDRi is joining Big Brother Watch, Human Rights Watch and 177 civil society groups & experts from around the world to say: 🚫Stop Facial Recognition surveillance now🚫 Read our statement ⤵️ edri.org/our-work/globa…

Again Call for Papers time! Marguerite, @ZakharovaGul, Ksenia Ermoshina and I are delighted to share the CfP for our co-organized conference, "Big #Tech as an Actor of Global #Security and Geopolitical Conflicts". Deadline for submission: December 5th, 2023! cis.cnrs.fr/big-tech-as-an…

Exciting news! We (Rikke Bjerg Jensen, Andrea Medrado /@[email protected], Martin R. Albrecht and myself) are about to start our three-year research project "Social Foundations of Cryptography", funded by the EPSRC. Our website says a bit about what we're trying to do: …foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io/about

We have a PhD position in ethnography focusing on the security needs of protesters, as part of our Social Foundations of Cryptography project (…foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io). Deadline: 31 August 2024. Open to UK applicants. More information here: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

id.erudit.org/iderudit/11122… "Pred-Pol-Pov: Visibility, Data Flows, and the Predictive Policing of Poverty" featured in Surveillance and Society Vol 22 no2 is a vital read. We are campaigning with other grassroots organisations to challenge the tech's use. #AutomatedInjustice