David Lyon

David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and the author of Surveillance after Snowden (Polity 2015).

Precarious privacy

This excerpt from the surveillance expert’s account of Surveillance after Snowden asks whether societies that permit mass surveillance at the expense of privacy are undermining the very possibility of politics.

By David Lyon

/ 7 Jan 2016

Surveillance after Paris

There’s little evidence that “mass surveillance” catches potential terrorists, but it does risk catching innocents. More conventional police methods are more effective against terrorism.

By David Lyon

/ 3 Dec 2015