Usual Suspects and Strange Bedfellows: Networks of Privacy Advocacy in Surveillance Societies
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2008-09-26
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Bennett, Colin J.
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Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
Abstract
Dr. Colin Bennett received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is now Professor. From 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of information privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous articles, he has published three books: Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States(Cornell University Press, 1992); Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age(University of Toronto Press, 1999, with Rebecca Grant); The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in the Digital Age (Ashgate Press, 2003, with Charles Raab).
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privacy, surveillance, surveillance societies, privacy advocates, peer to peer monitoring, surveillance studies, resistance to surveillance
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Bennet, Colin. "Usual Suspects and Strange Bedfellows: Networks of Privacy Advocacy in Surveillance Societies." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 26 September 2008. Presentation.