Colin J. Bennett
Institution
University of Victoria
Department
Political science
Position
Professor
Country
Canada
cjb@uvic.ca
Information
Colin J. Bennett is professor of political science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy governance at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects. Through a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant on Big Data Surveillance, he is currently researching the capture and use of personal data on voters by political parties in Western democracies.