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Professor Fussey’s research principally focuses on the human rights implications of advanced surveillance and other policing technologies. Other work analyses digital sociology, algorithmic justice and urban studies. He has published widely across these areas, having produced over 75 academic publications in his field.
Professor Fussey has co-authored UN human rights standards on law enforcement uses of technology at protests and written national policy on the regulation of digital surveillance. He has worked with UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and EU on human rights standards for regulating surveillance technology, and authored work laid before the UN General Assembly. At a national level, Professor Fussey has written national guidance on law enforcement uses of biometric technologies, led the human rights and ethics strand of the UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s national strategy (2018-2023), had his work debated in the House of Lords, and led the independent academic review of the London Metropolitan Police trials of facial recognition technology.
A co-director of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP) – a collaboration between surveillance researchers at the universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Stirling and Southampton – Professor Fussey also co-directed the eight-year £4.7m ESRC funded Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project (2015-2023). Other work has focused on urban resilience and, separately, organised crime in the EU with particular reference to the trafficking of children for criminal exploitation (monograph Child Trafficking in the EU: Policing and protecting Europe’s most vulnerable). Further books include Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City, Terrorism and the Olympics, a co-authored book on social science research methodology, and co-authorship of one of the UK's best-selling criminology textbooks (Criminology: A Sociological Introduction). Professor Fussey is also an editor for the Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series and is contracted by Oxford University Press for a monograph on remote biometric identification and human rights, Facial Recognition Surveillance: Policing and human rights in the age of AI (delivery Autumn 2024).
A regular commentator in national and international media, Professor Fussey's award winning research has featured on the front pages of The Guardian and Financial Times, and additionally covered by BBC Newsnight, and US equivalent PBS Newshour, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Times, La Repubblica, El Pais, Le Monde, BBC Radio 4 (File on 4, PM, World at One) and other national news outlets across the world.
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