Bennett, Colin
Colin Bennett is a professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria from 2003-2009. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels.
Research Interests: Comparative Politics; Public Policy; American Government and Politics; Information and Communications Policy; International Privacy Standards; Personal data Protection
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| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Law and Legal Issues Privacy and Data Protection Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
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| Email: | cjb@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events (London: Routledge, 2011). Co-edited with Kevin Haggerty. Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective (London: Routledge, 2008). Co-edited with David Lyon. The Council of Europe’s Modernized Convention on Personal Data Protection: Why Canada Should Consider Accession CIGI Paper No. 246 (November 2020) “The European General Data Protection Regulation: An instrument for the globalization of privacy standards? Information Polity, vol. 23, No. 2 (June 2018) “The New European Privacy Regulation and the Geo-Politics of Personal Data”, Harvard International Review (2012) Colin Bennett has also completed policy reports on privacy protection for the Canadian government, the Canadian Standards Association, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the European Commission, and the UK Information Commissioner |
