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Collaboration with University of Edinburgh.
In this short 4.5-month project, we will build on our prior work exploring the EU attempts to create an ‘ecosystem of trust’ around emerging AI systems (Urquhart, Laffer, Miranda, 2022). We are interested in regulation of intelligent facial surveillance and biometric systems, and the challenges of fostering trust around deployment of these technologies. We have developed design fiction scenarios in the past to help envision future uses of biometric technologies, and the tensions/issues (Laffer, 2021; Urquhart, Laffer, and Miranda, 2022). We propose to develop 3 new scenarios as part of this project, using the platform Twine as a means to situate regulatory challenges and social tensions these technologies pose through this creative tool. The process would involve constructing these scenarios, informed by legal analysis, and then holding a roundtable in Edinburgh with relevant experts (e.g., academics, policing, regulator) to critically reflect on the challenges our scenarios pose and use this to shape policy debates to ensure trustworthy deployments.
Total award value ?3,492.80
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Presentation / Talk
[panel] From Cameras to Infrastructures: Visual and Algorithmic Surveillance in Policing
Miranda D (2026) [panel] From Cameras to Infrastructures: Visual and Algorithmic Surveillance in Policing. SSN26 (Surveillance Studies Network) - 11th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, Lille, France, 10.06.2026-12.06.2026.
Keynote
Facial coding (in)Justice Biometric identification and classification of bodies
Miranda D (2026) Facial coding (in)Justice Biometric identification and classification of bodies. Ethics and Agency of Algorithmic Faces in Medicine (Coding Faces workshop), Technical University of Munich and the Ethical Data Initiative (Tum Think Tank), Munich, Germany., 13.04.2026-14.04.2026.
Article
Eneman M, Ljungberg J, Miranda D, Urquhart L & Webster W (2025) The Ontological Shift in Surveillance: Revisiting the “Surveillant Assemblage” in the Age of Facial Recognition. Surveillance & Society, 23 (4), pp. 498-504. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v23i4.20070
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Exploring Challenges of Biometric AI and Intelligent Facial Surveillance
Miranda D & Urquhart L (2024) Exploring Challenges of Biometric AI and Intelligent Facial Surveillance. SSN - Surveillance Studies Network, Ljubljana, 28.05.2024-31.05.2024.
Keynote
Tecnologias de Seguran?a Emergentes - Emotional & Biometric AI
Miranda D (2024) Tecnologias de Seguran?a Emergentes - Emotional & Biometric AI. AIDA Seminar, University of Minho, 19.03.2024-19.03.2024.
Project Report
Critically Envisioning Biometric Artificial Intelligence In Law Enforcement
Urquhart L, Miranda D, Connon I & Laffer A (2023) Critically Envisioning Biometric Artificial Intelligence In Law Enforcement. EPSRC TAS Hub.