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News and Events

New Privacy Advocates Website Launched

When surveillance practices emerge, who mobilizes against them, how, and with what effect?

New book on National Identity Cards

Congratulations to Colin Bennett, David Lyon and all the contributors on their new book Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective, now ava

SP receives $2.5 million from SSHRC

Queen's-led Surveillance Project awarded $2+ million Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Administration

David Lyon
Queen's Research Chair in Sociology,
2007 Killam Research Fellow, and
Director, The Surveillance Project

Faculty website: http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=people/faculty/full-time/lyond

David Lyon is the Principal Investigator of the Globalization of Personal Data Project and the Director of the Surveillance Project. He also holds a Killam Research Fellowship 2008-2010 and is a Queen's Research Chair in Sociology. Professor Lyon has been working on surveillance issues since the 1980s, when he discussed surveillance as one of the key issues of information-based societies in The Information Society: Issues and Illusions (Polity 1988). Since then he has been involved in many debates over information politics and policy in Canada and around the world as a result of his research and publications including The Electronic Eye (1994), Surveillance Society (2001) and Surveillance after September 11 (Polity 2003). He is a founding editor of the e-journal Surveillance and Society and has particular research interests in national ID cards, aviation security and surveillance and in promoting the cross-disciplinary and international study of surveillance. Lyon is currently preparing Identifying Citizens: Software, Social Sorting and the State for Polity Press (2008).

Elia Zureik
Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology

Faculty website:
http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=people/faculty/emeritus/zureike

Elia Zureik is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, where he has been teaching since 1971. His research interests include race & ethnic relations, political sociology, sociology of the Middle East, and new technology and work. He is the lead investigator of the GPD Project's international survey.

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Yolande Chan
Professor & E. Marie Shantz Research Fellow in MIS
Queen's School of Business

Faculty website: http://business.queensu.ca/faculty

Yolande Chan has studied surveillance, privacy and security issues, from a business perspective, since the late 1990s. She has co-authored a number of journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on information privacy and security, and on ethical considerations in the management of information technology. Yolande has supervised Master's students, Ph.D candidates, and postdoctoral fellows with related research interests. She is a senior member of journal editorial boards and conference planning committees. Yolande Chan Yolande's focus is raising awareness within the business community of the importance of appropriate flows of customer and employee personal data.

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