Many of the new surveillance topics in this section were treated at a conference entitled Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology, which was held as part of the Hixon-Riggs Forum on Science, Technology and Society.  The conference took place at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, CA, on March 27-29, 2008. The conference program and participant biographies can be found at: http://www.hmc.edu/newsandevents/hixon08.html. An introduction to the conference and abstracts can be found here.

The thirty participants are centrally involved in helping to define the emerging field of surveillance studies, described by Peter Monaghan in The Chronicle of Higher Education's story "Watching the Watchers."

A number of the conferees served on, or advised, the Committee on Privacy in the Information Age for the National Academy of Sciences and contributed to writing its report, Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age,

Conferees have also contributed to a March 2007 symposium "Taking A Look at Surveillance and Society" in Contemporary Sociology.