News about Surveillance

Celebrating 2024 publications from the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (DNRF138)

2024 has been extremely rewarding. PRIVACY scholars undertake in-depth historical research. This research is tested in our cross-disciplinary research environment and at international conferences and workshops,…

Salvation vs. health: The eternal pursuit of the flawless life

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun in a live interview at Copenhagen University Library Fiolstræde

NEW BOOK: Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

NEW BOOK: Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

The HEALTH & SCIENCE Theme at the Centre for Privacy Studies is looking for an intern for the spring semester of 2025

The HEALTH & SCIENCE Theme at the Centre for Privacy Studies is looking for an intern for the spring semester of 2025

AI can now be our eyes and ears in the forest and beneath the waves

Animal sounds combined with artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize biodiversity monitoring both on land and in aquatic settings according to researchers from the University of Copenhagen. By analyzing wildlife…

New Blog Post about the CPDP.ai Conference

The organizers of the Computer, Privacy, Data Protection Conference (CPDP.ai) had invited PRIVACY to host a workshop at this year’s conference in Brussels May 21-24. The delegation from PRIVACY included Centre Directo…

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025

Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als 'Het straatje' Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025 will be held in Boston 20-22 March. Background Privacy is hardly a hallmark of…

PRIVACY at the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in Chicago

From March 21-23, 2024, a delegation from PRIVACY attended the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual conference in Chicago. As an associate organization of RSA, PRIVACY organized four sessions with fifteen…

New season of the Privacy Studies Podcast

The first episodes of the newest and fifth season of the centre’s very own Privacy Studies Podcast have been published. Listen to the podcast here on our website. The new season follows the discussions of the symposium…

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

New PRIVACY book: Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History

Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is edited by PRIVACY Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer and contains contributions by PRIVACY scholars.

Commemorative Lecture by Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

Nuno Grancho gave a conference paper at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities

Nuno Grancho presented his research at the Conference of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) that took place at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities, USA.

Interview with Professor Sarah Igo

Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sarah Igo Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, Sarah Igo visited Centre for Privacy Studies in May 2023. She gave a lecture on the U.S. Social Security number and ho…

Disseminating historical research of Copenhagen

The newly launched app Hidden Copenhagen takes you on an innovative living history trail through Copenhagen. The trail tells a powerful story of murder, execution and anatomical dissection in the seventeenth century.…

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2024

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 21-23 March, 2024 in Chicago Organizer: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (PRIVACY) (www.teol.ku.dk/privacy)

Atreyee Sen Awarded Prize for Year's Best Article in Critical Asian Studies

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has ben awarded Critical Asian Studies' inaugural prize for the year's best article published in the journal.

Rwandan tree carbon stock mapped from above

Breakthrough in climate change mitigation: Researchers at University of Copenhagen have developed accurate nation-wide mapping of the carbon content of trees based on aerial images.

Mette Birkedal Bruun speaks at the leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

On 22 June Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a lecture in the session Privacy and Faith at the annual leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

PRIVACY-workshop at the Computer Privacy Data Protection conference in Brussels

Postdoctoral researcher Natacha Klein Käfer gives her presentation ‘Borders and Epidemics: Controlling Information and Disease in Early Modern Saxony’ Science and Technology scholar Katja Pape de Neergaard (STAY…

Big Brother isn’t always as clever as we think

New research questions the value of digital surveillance and big data. Sometimes traditional and less privacy-invasive data can predict human behaviour much more effectively.