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David Murakami Wood (DMW)
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies
Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa
Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle:
An old black and white photo of two disreputable looking men operating an hand-powered rail cart
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A meme of Ripley from Alien(s), saying "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit... It's the only way to be sure..."
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The European Trade Union Confederation #ETUC has published a really useful guide for unions in how to deal with algorithmic management... #unions #surveillance #bossware

www.etuc.org/sites/defaul...
Stylized eye on a colourful blocky digital background
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Four essential albums that came out when you were 16? Well, here's four I actually still listen to....
Album cover of 16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens, which just shows the members of the band in different and rather random poses. Album cover of Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, which shows Chuck D and Flavor Flav behind prison bars. Album cover of Surfer Rosa by Pixies, a moody black and white image of a bare-breasted flamenco dancer against a wall on which there is a cross and a guitar. Album cover of Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys, with a black and white photo of the 10-person extended band against an ivy-covered building, on a green background.
July 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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What's a poster you had in your room growing up?

(note: this one is a bit later, at university and just after – although I was very much still "growing up." If I had posters on my wall earlier, I don't remember them...)
Poster from the All Things Must Pass album set, showing George Harrison with a very long hair and a dark, wide-brimmed hat, almost silhouetted in a hallway, with evening light from behind through a decorative Victorian glass-paned door.
June 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Yanis Varoufakis is just wrong. The attacks on #Iran are not a distraction, but part of the same strategy as the genocide in #Gaza. This is what happens when your focus, your analysis and your idea of solidarity gets too narrow and why “All Eyes On… “ is not a good idea.
Yanis Varoufakis on Instagram: “Feeling even his Western sponsors turn against him Netanyahu attacked Iran to shift our attention. We have a duty to keep ALL EYES & EARS trained ON GAZA. Ignore the war with Iran. Iranians can defend themselves. Palestinians need us to KEEP TALKING GAZA!”
June 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#Meta / Facebook is planning the world's longest undersea cable, Project Waterworth #internet #infrastructure #AI engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/c...
Maps shows proposed Meta Project Waterworth undersea cable route: USA-Brazil-South Africa-India-Australia-USA.
February 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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What is to be done with Elon Musk? I think Britain's Viz magazine got it right years ago...
Two 5-panel 1950s-newspaper-style comic strips are shown. In the first one, "Sting's Fantastic Journey into Space", Geordie pop star and former singer of The Police, Sting, is shown preparing for and then leaving on a journey into space. In the final panel, folks in the control room are seen celebrating that he's gone and won't be back, "God, he was an arsehole!" The second is in the same style, with the insufferable Irish pop star, Bono of U2, is seen heading to the bottom of the sea in a submersible.. In the final panel, the crew of the ship celebrate: "Incredible, we've got rid of another one!" "Ha ha! What a twat!"
January 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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And that's me off until the New Year! See you in 2025. This is going to be a year we will need to stand together. Another world is still possible. Seasons Greetings from snowy Ottawa!
Picture shows a snowy Ottawa landscape with trees and a frozen river in the background. In the foreground, DMW, a short, bearded white male professor, stands smiling in heavy winter clothes, with a teal Norwegian hiking association hat, multicolour striped scarf and woollen mitts.
December 24, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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I don't normally post personal things on social media, but look at my mince pies, just look at them... 😀
Image shows a stack of Xmas mince pies on a dark blue plate. They are dusted with icing sugar and look delicious.
December 12, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Today, December 6th, is the 35th anniversary of the 1989 mass murder of 14 women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

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The 14 victims of the Dec.6, 1989 shootings at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal are shown in file photos. Top row (left to right) Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick and Barbara Klucnik-Widajewicz. Bottom row (left to right) Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte
December 6, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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I also feel compelled to repost this cartoon by Paul Noth:
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Two sheep, in a field full of sheep, are looking at a campaign poster of a wolf in a suit with the slogan, "I am going to eat you". One sheep is saying to the other, "He tells it like it is." (Signature: Paul Noth).
November 19, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Just to remind everyone, here is the official Republican Party presidential platform (yes, in ALL CAPS in the original)... expect the deportations to start on day one. #Trump www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20...
SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR! STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS! DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD'S RESERVE CURRENCY FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN'S SPORTS DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS
November 8, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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What do when the biggest fossil fuel companies go against the United Nations, the people of this planet, and every bit of good science we have, and decide that destroying the climate is good, actually? What to do...?
BP has dropped its ambitious 2030 plan to reduce its oil and gas production by 40% and shift to renewables, three sources told Reuters. The company made the commitment in 2020, and had already watered it down last year. Now it has reportedly abandoned the plan entirely and will focus on new investments to increase oil and gas output. Other oil giants including Shell have also walked back their energy transition goals.
October 7, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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This is also clearly a war crime (h/t Philip Proudfoot from the other place)
September 17, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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CFP: Surveillance & Society is seeking contributions for a special issue on “Resisting Surveillance through Data Visibility and Invisibility” (guest edited by Natasha Tusikov). DEADLINE: March 1, 2025.
#surveillance #resistance #datajustice
Details here: tinyurl.com/3az2eztn
September 8, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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PUBLISHED: New issue of Surveillance & Society. Articles on #smarthomes, FBI #memes, retail price monitoring, Cold War-era sonar systems, racializing surveillance, predictive #policing, healthcare #biometrics, & more. Always #openaccess.

Read here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Picture of a protest. One protestor's t-shirt reads, "Black Lives Matter;" another holds up a handwritten sign, reading "No Justice, No Peace." The faces of the protestors are both framed in green rectangles, as if by a facial recognition surveillance software, but also blurred, as if for privacy reasons.
September 7, 2024 at 11:12 PM