<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hope to see some of you in brussels for the cpdp.<div>best,</div><div>s.</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 36px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: 1px; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0049ff">[sorry for cross-posting - Please do not hesitate to further disseminate]</font></h1><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></div><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 36px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: 1px; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">BOOK PRESENTATION BY DAVID LYON: LIQUID SURVEILLANCE: A CONVERSATION</h1><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">New surveillance technologies can have a significant impact on privacy. Surveillance, defined as “any collection and processing of personal data, whether identifiable or not, for the purposes of influencing or managing those whose data have been garnered” (Lyon, 2001), is a distinctive product of the modern world and as this world has become liquefied so too has surveillance.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Why do people so willingly comply with surveillance and how does this liquidity suck everyone into its stream as participants? These and other questions will be addressed during the book presentation by <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">Professor David Lyon</strong> (Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queens University, Canada) of his new book <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-style: italic; "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation</strong></em>, which he co-authored with <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">Zygmunt Bauman</strong> (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">The presentation will be followed by a lively roundtable discussion moderated by William Webster, University of Stirling (UK) with the following panellists: Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO), Didier Bigo, King's College London (UK) and Kristin Veel, University of Copenhagen (DK).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Organised by VUB-LSTS and LISS (Living in Surveillance Societies)-COST Action in cooperation with Polity Press and deBuren.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> <br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">REGISTRATION:</strong> Please RSVP to following address: rvbrakel[a]vub.ac.be</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; font: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">Wednesday 23 January 2013 - 20:00 (drinks at 19.30)</strong></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff">Rocco Bellanova</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff">CReSPo- FUSL & LSTS- VUB</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff"><a href="mailto:rocco.bellanova@vub.ac.be">rocco.bellanova@vub.ac.be</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff">Have a look at my Bepress page: <a href="http://works.bepress.com/rocco_bellanova/">http://works.bepress.com/rocco_bellanova/</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff">Visit the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection - CPDP page: <a href="http://www.cpdpconferences.org/">www.cpdpconferences.org</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2900ff"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img height="110" width="680" id="19c62776-2867-4cbe-ac2c-c433dc3d5f88" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:AFB2868F-6EDD-4D48-932D-73F8B2DDC9D1@telenet.be"></span> </div> <br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>