14:30
Birkbeck, University of London
December 2
Birkbeck Central
When: — Venue: Birkbeck Central
The book is a media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications. The diuscussants in the roundtable are Nathan Moore (Birkbeck) and Stewart Motha (Birkbeck).
Contact name: Patrick Hanafin
SpeakersBernard Keenan is lecturer in law at UCL.
His research focuses on the regulation of digital technologies at the intersection of surveillance, national security, and human rights.
He has published on the UK's legal oversight system after the Snowden revelations, the deployment of Automated Facial Recognition systems by police, state access to encrypted communications, and the regulation of social media and search engine content moderation systems under the rubric of online safety. His book, Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks, offers a media genealogical account of the power to govern and intercept private communications, rooted in archival research.
He has also published on the immigration system, law and literature, and social theory and the law and has a particular interest in critical theory, social systems theory and media theory.
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