SCAN

Projects

Our new project is entitled "The New Transparency". Read more...

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

Surveillance Camera Awareness Network (SCAN)

A multidisciplinary Canadian research initiative

SCAN provides reliable research resources on surveillance camera use in Canada, from cabs and corner stores to national CCTV networks.

SCAN is committed to empirically-based, theoretically informed, and ethically-sensitive research to advance human knowledge and to contribute to evidence-based policy and practice.

SCAN is a collaborative group of university academics, policy-makers and relevant practitioners that also interacts with surveillance camera scholars globally.

SCAN promotes awareness of surveillance camera issues through accessible publications, a web site and cooperation with media contacts.

23 June, 2008: The Surveillance Project has been awarded research funding of $50,000 from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Ottawa) under its Contributions Program for a project entitled "Camera Surveillance in Canada: Current Trends." The work will be done under the supervision of David Lyon, coordinated by Jason Pridmore, and undertaken by a new group, inaugurated at Queen's in March 2008, called SCAN -- "Surveillance Camera Awareness Network." Researchers at the universities of Alberta, Carleton, UQAM, Victoria, Windsor and Queen's are involved in the collaboration.

Read the full press release from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner here:
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2008/nr-c_080623_e.asp