Rob Lee
drroblee.bsky.social
Rob Lee
@drroblee.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Criminology.

Anonymity, Surveillance, Sociology
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We are excited to announce the 11th Biennial #Surveillance Studies Network Conference happening 9th-12th June 2026, in Lille, France. It includes a #PhD Colloquium.

#SSN2026 is hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social ETHICS & ISTC.

Look out for more info soon...

And get those abstracts ready!
May 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The OII's Dr @rocher.lc is cited in a @newscientist.com piece highlighting concerns over AI trained on 57m NHS medical records.

“Building powerful generative AI models that protect patient privacy is an open, unsolved scientific problem,” says Dr Luc Rocher.

www.newscientist.com/article/2479...
Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS medical records
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have expressed concern about the fact it is trained on millions of health records
www.newscientist.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Pleased to see this is available for pre-order!

The Harms of Beauty is a critical examination of the wide array of harms associated with legal, illegal and counterfeit markets within the beauty industry.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-harms-of...
The Harms of Beauty
The Harms of Beauty; This groundbreaking ethnographic study lifts the lid on the dark side of beauty – revealing why young people are willing to inflict self-harm in the pursuit of ‘perfection’ and ex...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM