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May 16, 2008

Durham and Amsterdam's Data Wars project: website launch

Just a quick post to say that the Amsterdam and Durham Universitys' Data Wars project (which I'm working on as research associate) has just launched its new website. As the website says,

Data Wars is a three-year research project which investigates new spaces of governing in the war on terror. The project analyses the ways in which the mobility of people and the mobility of money are being governed in the war on terror, and aims to understand how commercial data - including financial records and passenger information - become used for security decisions in Europe. Data Wars also examines the wider social and political implications of these security developments.

The website also has a del.icio.us news feed - which you can subscribe to, or read on the Data Wars site, for the latest stories about the data-led war on terror. The use of data in security and conflict is currently a significant and controversial area of development: hopefully, the new website and news feed will be useful for those wishing to follow the European aspects of this.

Posted by jon_mendel at May 16, 2008 02:58 PM

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