Marc Schuilenburg
@marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
Professor Digital Surveillance | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Author: Making Surveillance Public - Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms (2nd edition, 2025) | www.marcschuilenburg.nl
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The second and expanded edition of ‘Making Surveillance Public’ is out this week. Including a new chapter on AI-Crime.
More info: rb.gy/scco2u.
More info: rb.gy/scco2u.
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Can't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner.
🌍 Planetary Surveillance
📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026
📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10
🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB
Submit and join us!
🌍 Planetary Surveillance
📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026
📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10
🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB
Submit and join us!
November 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Can't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner.
🌍 Planetary Surveillance
📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026
📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10
🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB
Submit and join us!
🌍 Planetary Surveillance
📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026
📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10
🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB
Submit and join us!
Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.
A must listen for anyone interested how AI creates new surveillance opportunities.
Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A must listen for anyone interested how AI creates new surveillance opportunities.
Meanwhile, in luxury surveillance.
This one shoots pictures down at what is inside the bowl, sending the snaps to an app that analyzes stool samples and rates your gut health. The Dekoda can be yours for $599, plus an annual subscription fee.
This one shoots pictures down at what is inside the bowl, sending the snaps to an app that analyzes stool samples and rates your gut health. The Dekoda can be yours for $599, plus an annual subscription fee.
‘Chasing the ideal gut’: Poop-tracking cameras claim to give health insights. Are they necessary?
Products like Dekoda can run up to $600 and photograph your every bowel movement – but who owns that data?
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Meanwhile, in luxury surveillance.
This one shoots pictures down at what is inside the bowl, sending the snaps to an app that analyzes stool samples and rates your gut health. The Dekoda can be yours for $599, plus an annual subscription fee.
This one shoots pictures down at what is inside the bowl, sending the snaps to an app that analyzes stool samples and rates your gut health. The Dekoda can be yours for $599, plus an annual subscription fee.
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Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.
Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
arstechnica.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.
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Today's post delves a bit into the history of #sociology, memories of Erving #Goffman, and his use of #metaphor as method makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/26/e...
Erving Goffman: Memories, method and metaphors
If you do sociology or, indeed, any social science whatsoever, you’ll come across the work of Erving Goffman. I have done too but never engaged with it as much as I should have done. This was…
makingsciencepublic.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Today's post delves a bit into the history of #sociology, memories of Erving #Goffman, and his use of #metaphor as method makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/26/e...
According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands.
Zet AI in voor een positief contact tussen politie en burger, bepleit hoogleraar Marc Schuilenburg van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in een rapport aan de politie.
Van data naar daadkracht: AI zet politiewerk op scherp
De Nederlandse Politie staat op een digitaal kruispunt. In een nieuw rapport schetst de Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad Politie zeven urgente uitdagingen met acht adviezen. De korpschef neemt deze bijna ...
ccv-secondant.nl
August 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Zet AI in voor een positief contact tussen politie en burger, bepleit hoogleraar Marc Schuilenburg van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in een rapport aan de politie.
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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️Read Aleš Završnik's review of @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social's 'Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms.' Part of #TheoreticalCrim's Special Issue, guest-edited by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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August 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️Read Aleš Završnik's review of @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social's 'Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms.' Part of #TheoreticalCrim's Special Issue, guest-edited by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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These panels are part of a collection of 7 panels and a book panel on digital criminology at #EUROCRIM2025 that I have coordinated with Mareile Kaufmann and @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social #digitalcriminology #criminology #crimsky
August 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
These panels are part of a collection of 7 panels and a book panel on digital criminology at #EUROCRIM2025 that I have coordinated with Mareile Kaufmann and @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social #digitalcriminology #criminology #crimsky
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De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren. 👉 buff.ly/eAsrAJ1
August 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren. 👉 buff.ly/eAsrAJ1
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My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Because the twin is not a copy: On the politics of digital twins - Louise Amoore, 2025
This essay explores the changing form of the digital twin as a political technology in the age of deep learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI). It ...
journals.sagepub.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Marc Schuilenburg
De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren. 👉 buff.ly/eAsrAJ1
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
De slimme deurbel is geen onschuldig gadget, waarschuwt hoogleraar en filosoof Marc Schuilenburg. Het is een symbool van een samenleving waarin controle en veiligheid steeds vaker de boventoon voeren. 👉 buff.ly/eAsrAJ1
Swasticars, Surveillance, and the Seductive Trap of Smartness: How Tesla Became the Luxury Blueprint for Disciplinary Technology'.
In this blogpost, we discuss why we willingly share our personal data with private companies as Tesla.
Read it here: medium.com/surveillance...
In this blogpost, we discuss why we willingly share our personal data with private companies as Tesla.
Read it here: medium.com/surveillance...
Swasticars, Surveillance, and the Seductive Trap of Smartness: How Tesla Became the Luxury…
In this post, Marc Shuilenburg and Yarin Eski reflect on their article ‘Data Sharing: A Case Study of Luxury Surveillance by Tesla’, which…
medium.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Swasticars, Surveillance, and the Seductive Trap of Smartness: How Tesla Became the Luxury Blueprint for Disciplinary Technology'.
In this blogpost, we discuss why we willingly share our personal data with private companies as Tesla.
Read it here: medium.com/surveillance...
In this blogpost, we discuss why we willingly share our personal data with private companies as Tesla.
Read it here: medium.com/surveillance...
How the Amazon Ring reframes mundane interactions into surveillance opportunities.
Ring reintroduces video sharing with police
Ring reintroduces video sharing with police
Ring reverses its plan to stop sharing video with law enforcement.
buff.ly
July 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How the Amazon Ring reframes mundane interactions into surveillance opportunities.
Interview on why lecturing is also a form of "accountability" and the need to be “in room” with AI tools. Criticizing is not enough anymore ...
www.centre-for-bold-cities.nl/news/in-the-...
www.centre-for-bold-cities.nl/news/in-the-...
In the Spotlight: prof. dr. mr. Marc Schuilenburg
Security, surveillance, AI, and public values, for Marc Schuilenburg, these are not abstract academic concepts. They are urgent societal challenges that demand critical, interdisciplinary, and engaged...
www.centre-for-bold-cities.nl
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Interview on why lecturing is also a form of "accountability" and the need to be “in room” with AI tools. Criticizing is not enough anymore ...
www.centre-for-bold-cities.nl/news/in-the-...
www.centre-for-bold-cities.nl/news/in-the-...
Meanwhile, in the Tour de France.
July 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Meanwhile, in the Tour de France.
Marc Schuilenburg is blij met de reactie van de politie. ‘De korpschef herkent niet alleen de door ons geïdentificeerde uitdagingen als het gaat om datagedreven werk en de toepassing van AI. Meer nog, zij onderschrijft ook onze aanbevelingen en gaat er mee aan de slag.’”
Meer hier:
Meer hier:
Uitdagingen en gevoeligheden voor datagedreven politiewerk
Grootschalige dataverzameling en artificial intelligence bieden de politie mogelijkheden om doelmatiger te werken. Maar er zijn ook uitdagingen, gevoeligheden en risico’s. In het rapport Navigeren in ...
www.socialevraagstukken.nl
June 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Marc Schuilenburg is blij met de reactie van de politie. ‘De korpschef herkent niet alleen de door ons geïdentificeerde uitdagingen als het gaat om datagedreven werk en de toepassing van AI. Meer nog, zij onderschrijft ook onze aanbevelingen en gaat er mee aan de slag.’”
Meer hier:
Meer hier:
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PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess.
Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz
Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz
June 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess.
Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz
Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz
In our new piece in @survstudiesnet.bsky.social, we unpack how Tesla and its car fleet became the blueprint for luxury surveillance, operating as machines that seduce users with innovation while quietly disciplining them.
You can read our article on the 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿 here: lnkd.in/eh6H8rry.
You can read our article on the 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿 here: lnkd.in/eh6H8rry.
June 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In our new piece in @survstudiesnet.bsky.social, we unpack how Tesla and its car fleet became the blueprint for luxury surveillance, operating as machines that seduce users with innovation while quietly disciplining them.
You can read our article on the 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿 here: lnkd.in/eh6H8rry.
You can read our article on the 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿 here: lnkd.in/eh6H8rry.
How to resist digital surveillance of everyday life? Knit, Code, Resist.
Great initiative: matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-re...
Great initiative: matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-re...
Knit, code, resist
Feminist performative practices of non-fascist living with AI and law How does knitting, code, law, and women’s history of embodied and performative resistance come together? In this research…
matildaarvidsson.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
How to resist digital surveillance of everyday life? Knit, Code, Resist.
Great initiative: matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-re...
Great initiative: matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-re...
Seizoen zit erop. Kansloos vandaag.
May 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Seizoen zit erop. Kansloos vandaag.
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Very happy to co-organise this great event with such an exciting programme and stellar keynotes!
Also there are still a few places left to attend on-site, get in touch and join us in Rotterdam 19-20 June!
#surveillance #AI #publicsafety #digitalcriminology #criminology
@crisresearch.bsky.social
Also there are still a few places left to attend on-site, get in touch and join us in Rotterdam 19-20 June!
#surveillance #AI #publicsafety #digitalcriminology #criminology
@crisresearch.bsky.social
The full program for our symposium - AI-Imaginations & Public Safety – at Erasmus University Rotterdam is now online!
Keynote speakers:
- David Lyon
- Mareille Kaufman
- Selmar Smit
Along with an excellent line-up of more than 30 speakers.
More info on the blogpost of AI-Maps: bitly.cx/hLHvl.
Keynote speakers:
- David Lyon
- Mareille Kaufman
- Selmar Smit
Along with an excellent line-up of more than 30 speakers.
More info on the blogpost of AI-Maps: bitly.cx/hLHvl.
Unveiling the Program for AI-Imaginations and Public Safety Symposium, organized by AI-MAPS!
AI-MAPS is proud to present the full program for our upcoming symposium: AI-Imaginations and Public Safety
bitly.cx
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Very happy to co-organise this great event with such an exciting programme and stellar keynotes!
Also there are still a few places left to attend on-site, get in touch and join us in Rotterdam 19-20 June!
#surveillance #AI #publicsafety #digitalcriminology #criminology
@crisresearch.bsky.social
Also there are still a few places left to attend on-site, get in touch and join us in Rotterdam 19-20 June!
#surveillance #AI #publicsafety #digitalcriminology #criminology
@crisresearch.bsky.social