BIG DATA SURVEILLANCE

The primary funding of the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) is from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). We are currently working on a five-year Big Data Surveillance (BDS) project funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant. The Big Data Surveillance project examines the relationship between big data and surveillance in three linked streams: security, marketing, and governance... Surveillance Studies has flourished at Queen's since the early 1990s, and from 2000-2009 was carried out under The Surveillance Project banner. Details of our many publications may be found on this site, along with descriptions of current research projects. Although most of our work is university-based, we also partner with a number of other organizations including the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Canada), the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group and others concerned with data protection and civil society responses to expanding surveillance... The Surveillance..