News and Research articles on German Ministry of the Interior

This paper analyses the controversial trial run of facial-recognition software at Berlin-Südkreuz, drawing on Science and Technology Studies.

KEYWORDS: Science and technology studies (STS), Algorithmic surveillance, Discourse analysis, (Post-)panoptic theory, Facial recognition software

Privacy gets another push from recent surveillance revelations, but who shall provide it? A workshop on data protection in cloud computing prior to the upcoming meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force tries to get an answer from politicians and techies.

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