An anonymous coward writes:

"Invasion of the Entryists"

George Monbiot, Guardian (London), December 9, 2003

How did a cultish political network become the public face of the
scientific establishment?

One of strangest aspects of modern politics is the dominance of
former left-wingers who have swung to the right. The "neo-cons"
pretty well run the White House and the Pentagon, the Labour party
and key departments of the British government.

But there is a group
which has travelled even further, from the most distant fringes of
the left to the extremities of the pro-corporate libertarian right.
While its politics have swung around 180 degrees, its tactics --
entering organisations and taking them over -- appear unchanged.
Research published for the first time today suggests that the members
of this group have colonised a crucial section of the British
establishment.

"The Life of Mobile Data:

Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity"

April 15-16, 2004, University of Surrey, England

Revised Deadline for Submission of abstracts: 30th November 2003

Keynote Speakers include:

David Lyon, Queens University, Ontario

Charles Raab, University of Edinburgh

Simon Davies, LSE and Privacy International

The rapid adoption and diffusion of mobile devices over the past decade has
transformed the way information is generated, organized and communicated
about individuals and their lives. The construction of new mobile data
profiles and of mobile, informatic selves, hold the potential to transform
what is organizationally and interpersonally meant by privacy,
individuality, community, risk, trust, and reciprocity in a mobilizing, and
globalizing world.