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Volume 14, Issue 4

Developing the Citizen Summit Method: Understanding citizens’ views on digital surveillance technologies

Sally Dibb, Manchester Metropolitan University
Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews Business School
Sara Degli Esposti, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2045

This paper discusses how to turn citizen summits into a robust, replicable, and participatory mixed methods approach for studying public views on digital surveillance technologies and other areas of internet policy.

KEYWORDS: Mixed-methods, Citizen summit, Deliberative methods, Participatory methods, Surveillance

In this article, we analyse attempts to regulate and control TikTok through the lens of foreign interference and technological sovereignty in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.

KEYWORDS: TikTok, Foreign interference, Digital sovereignty, Geopolitics, Surveillance

Over the past fifty years, surveillance practices once considered untenable due to their incompatibility with democratic rights and values have been rebranded as tolerable, neutral, or even desirable.

KEYWORDS: Profiling, Surveillance, Digitalisation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Democracy

An analysis of the EU data protection legislation and the AI Act proposal to assess, in light of the principle of proportionality, whether or not law enforcement authorities should be prohibited from using these technologies in "real time".

KEYWORDS: Smart cities, Facial recognition software, Law enforcement, Surveillance, Fundamental rights, Human rights

Volume 12, Issue 1

The grey-zones of public-private surveillance: Policy tendencies of facial recognition for public security in Brazilian cities

André Ramiro, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Luã Cruz, State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1705

The article explores the regulatory “grey zones” in the deployment of facial recognition (FRT) in policing in Brazil, and the policy and civic responses to them.

KEYWORDS: Facial recognition software, Security, Surveillance, Privacy, Brazil

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