Blogs and Twitter resources on Surveillance

This is a compiled list of the resources on surveillance on the web that was exchanged on the Jisc-list on Surveillance. It is far from being complete, but I tried to put some order in the many interesting links and tweets.

Surveillance Blogs

These surveillance blogs are more or less academically orientated or kept by academics.

http://www.surveillantidentity.com,  Surveillance and Identity
http://lavits.org/?lang=en Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies (Lavits).In English, Spanish and Portuguese:
http://ubisurv.wordpress.com, David Murakami Wood’s blog
http://www.surveillance-studies.org/ (mostly German)
http://www.security-games.com, blog on mega-events

Privacy advocates

https://www.eff.org/ – Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/about/staff/katitza-rodriguez, surveillance at the international level
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ (UK)
https://www.privacyinternational.org/, Privacy International (UK)
http://www.futureofprivacy.org/
http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/
http://digitalcourage.de/ (German, awards the German Big Brother Awards)

General interest

These are blog and websites that cover a very diverse set of subjects

http://publicintelligence.net
http://intelnews.org
Wired’s  danger room blog. These are good for military and intelligence aspects of surveillance,
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/ – surveillance news especially as it pertains to the US criminal system
http://progressivegeographies.com/
http://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/
http://www.pogowasright.org/  This is a great site for all things privacy related.
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.cdt.org/
http://www.schneier.com/
http://www.idea.leeds.ac.uk/penblog/
Technology, Thoughts and Trinkets — http://www.christopher-parsons.com/

Twitter

These are various twitter accounts – check them out!

The Australian Surveillance Studies Centre twitter link is at: @AustSurvStudies
Chiara Fonio: @SurvinItaly
David Barnard-Wills @dbarnardwills
Lavits’ twitter account is: @lavits_
@rodrigo_firmino
@SurvStudiesNet
@s_games
@KMacnish
@admmo, focuses on digital surveillance in security/policing and associated issues of information privacy.
@caparsons