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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 21/11/2025

A reminder that many schemes for utopian independent #zones are essentially white supremacist plans for re-colonization or double colonization. This one is just more overt in its violence and stupidity. Most hide behind ideas like "prosperity", "entrepreneurialism" and "sustainability."

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Can't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner. 🌍 Planetary Surveillance 📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026 📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10 🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB Submit and join us!

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Looking forward to welcoming many of you to Lille for #SSN2026! @istc.bsky.social

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Séminaire de recherche - "surveillance & pouvoir" La séance 5 du séminaire annuel du GdT Surveillance & Pouvoir du CIS-CNRS/ISTC aura lieu le 15 mai à 18h (en ligne). Inscription : bit.ly/4geK34b

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 24/04/2025

In which another privileged white person wonders about whether we should grant rights to inanimate capitalist technologies when we haven't even managed to get #humanrights to everyone equally, let alone properly consider the rights of other living beings... #animalrights #ecosystemrights

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Huge thanks to Professor David Murakami Wood @ubisurv.net for an inspiring week at @istc.bsky.social and ETHICS. Your talks on smart cities, surveillance, and algorithmic governance sparked vital conversations. Grateful for your generosity, insight, and sharp readings of surveillance and security.

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Rejoignez-nous pour étudier les enjeux de l’IA et de la surveillance au sein de notre équipe de recherche. @istc.bsky.social #surveillance #IA #postdoc #communication

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Excited for the upcoming one-day symposium on French Surveillance Studies, featuring top scholars in the field — and opened by a keynote from none other than David Murakami Wood @ubisurv.net If you’re in or around Lille on April 9th, register here: shorturl.at/mlmIj @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

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Journée d'études CEThicS - 9 avril 2025

Inauguré le 27 novembre 2023, CEThicS est un centre de recherche interdisciplinaire affilié au Surveillance Studies Network et au Centre Internet et Societé. CEThicS prend acte de la croissance expone...

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Excited for our Lille workshop with David Murakami Wood from April 7 to 11! We'll be discussing Olympic security, (post)smart cities, surveillance theory, art & culture, and m research projects. Looking forward to insightful conversations! www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... @ubisurv.net

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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): Open Issue | Surveillance & Society

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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #authoritarian #surveillance. The journal is always, fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

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Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

📣 Just out in Surveillance & Society's special issue on authoritarian surveillance with @ubisurv.net, " Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism."

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Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism | Surveillance & Society

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Off to Nice to attend a great looking two-day symposium on FRT & Law, alongside world class scholars. I will give a talk about the pervasive interplay between private and public surveillance in mega-projects like NEOM, which function as a testing ground for biometric surveillance.

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Rejoignez-nous pour étudier les enjeux de l’IA et de la surveillance au sein de notre équipe de recherche. @istc.bsky.social #surveillance #IA #postdoc #communication

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Comment concilier une volonté affichée de progrès et d’ouverture avec des mécanismes de surveillance et de contrôle renforcés ? Peut-on vraiment innover sans démocratiser ? Quels compromis les États font-ils entre hypermodernité et autoritarisme ? 🔗 Article complet ici : la-rem.eu/2025/02/neom...

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NEOM : l’IA au secours d’un régime ?

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

2025 Surveillance & Power Seminar | February 13 at 6 PM (online) 📢 “A Taxonomy of Resistance Strategies Against Surveillance: From Humor to Despair” by Raziel Yauri Miranda, Research Fellow – Erasmus University Rotterdam. Hosted at @istc.bsky.social 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3MxeRzE

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Ultimes scories @panettonepazzo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Johann Chapoutot. Historien spécialiste du nazisme. Punto e basta

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Très heureux de lancer notre séminaire annuel du GdT "surveillance et pouvoir" du Centre Internet et Société du CNRS. Notre première séance, "#Surveillance, sanctions et #souveraineté", est proposée par Ksenia ERMOSHINA Date et heure: le 14 janvier à 18h (en ligne) Inscription : bit.ly/47cmsNL

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Thrilled to announce the publication of Big Data et Influence, a collective volume I co-edited with Camila Pérez Lagos and Rania Aoun. This book brings critical perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to examine the societal impact of Big Data. Available now via Peter Lang! 📚

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Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Another fantastic year with the SSN team ❤️

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

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Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The False Promise of Biometrics in Africa: Digital IDs in Africa are failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making *fortunes* for tech vendors. #DigitalRights @lhreports.bsky.social www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

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False Promise of Biometrics

Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors

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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #surveillance dimensions of #SyntheticData. The journal is always, fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Last month we hosted an incredible 2-day symposium on #SafeCities. Leading scholars discussed #surveillance, #AI, #biometrictech, and urban #security across the globe. Huge thanks to our keynotes & panelists. Look out for more from CEThicS (Centre d’étude sur les technologies de surveillance).

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Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Moving my stuff to Bsky: check out my interview with Nora Young on CBC/Radio-Canada’s Spark about the use of AI surveillance during the Paris Olympics

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