This paper explores issues of security, privacy and liberty arising in relation to ICT supported emergency management. The aim is to inform the design of emergency management information systems (EMIS) and architectures that support emergent interoperability and assembly of emergency management systems of systems. We show how transformations of social and material practices of privacy boundary ...

Surveillance studies scholars and privacy have each developed sophisticated, important critiques of the existing data-driven order. But too few in either tradition put forward alternative substantive conceptions a good digital society. This, I argue, is crucial omission. Unless we construct new “sociotechnical imaginaries,” understandings goals aspirations technologies should aim to achieve, mo...

In mid-2020, the movement for Black liberation reached a new stage after murder of George Floyd generated unprecedented urban protests against racial injustice. Two years on, these appeals have not translated into widespread policy change. We analyze movement’s relationship to U.S. state, focusing on state surveillance movement. To grasp this, we consider four distinct but intersecting historic...

In recent work on open, privacy-preserving, accountable surveillance, we have proposed the use of cryptographic protocols that enable law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain actionable information about targeted users of mass-communication systems without intruding on the privacy of untargeted users. Our suggestion that appropriate technology, combined with sound policy and the rule...

The question of how government agencies can acquire actionable, useful information about legitimate but unknown targets without intruding upon the electronic activity of innocent parties is extremely important. We address this question by providing experimental evidence that actionable, useful information can indeed be obtained in a manner that preserves the privacy of innocent parties and that...

The paper introduces a video surveillance and event detection framework and application for semi-supervised surveillance use. The system development follows the guidelines of national strategy for surveillance systems. The aim is to generalize the interoperability, compatibility and legality in camera surveillance systems in Hungary. The system’s intended use is in automatic mode on camera feed...