Publications, presentations, media outreach
Peer reviewed publications
Borges Monroy, Isadora, and Edana Beauvais. 2025. “Race and Confidence in the Police in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 519–34. Online access
Borges Monroy, Isadora. 2025. “The Surveillance Complex: Deputized Law and Order in Advanced Democracies.” Information, Communication & Society, 1–23. Online access
Book chapters
Borges Monroy, Isadora, “The surveillance complex: A political economy of digital mass surveillance in democracies.” In Handbook of Critical Data Studies, edited by Ulises A. Mejias, Jasmine E. McNealy and Milagros Miceli. De Gruyter, expected Summer 2026. Online access
Borges Monroy, Isadora, “Institutional support for GDPR and its effect on European demand for privacy.” In Sustainability of Cybersecurity: From Technology and Practices to Regulations and Politics, edited by Ijaz Ahmad, Jani Suomalainen and Erkki Harjula. IEEE/Wiley, forthcoming.
Non-reviewed, public engagement
Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic, Innocence Project, Center on Privacy and Technology, and Borges Monroy, Isadora. April 2025. “Brief of Amici Curiae for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (SJC-13727)”
Summary: Filed before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) in Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (SJC-13727), the Clinic represented the Innocence Project, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, and independent researcher Dr. Isadora Borges Monroy’s viewpoints. The brief supports defendant-appellee Nathaniel Rodriguez, who objects to the Lowell Police Department’s use of racially-targeted police investigatory techniques on social media platforms. Building on last year’s filing in Commonwealth v. Dilworth, amici highlight the Equal Protection concerns raised by social media surveillance and underscore its disproportionate impact on minority communities.
Borges Monroy, Isadora. “Biden Cannot Protect Privacy or Defend Democracy by Expanding Surveillance Powers” , Tech Policy Press, July 3rd, 2024.
Independent researcher, co-author contributor to reports:
Presentations
- “Biden era privacy and surveillance preferences” — American Civil Liberties Union, Massachusetts chapter, May 6, 2025
- “Measuring Privacy Concerns under the Surveillance Complex” — Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, April 25, 2025
- “Turbo-charging surveillance? Disclosure of the Use of AI and Facial Recognition in Policing” — AI Hype Working Group, Harvard University, April 14, 2025
- “Surveillance or privacy? Public opinion and motivations juxtaposing surveillance and privacy” — EthicalTech working group, Harvard University, March 4, 2025
- “Memo of findings from Facebook pricing study” — None of Your Business (NOYB) European Center for Digital Rights, July 9, 2024
- “The European Union voters’ privacy-security tradeoff preferences” — European Political Science Association, Cologne, July 6, 2024
- “Surveillance or privacy? The spillover effects of public opinion on KKK surveillance on BLM” — Race+Tech+Media Working Group, Berkman Klein Center, May 15, 2024
- “Confidence in the Police, Attitudes toward Surveillance, and Political Behavior in Canada” — American Political Science Association, Canadian Politics Poster session, September 2, 2023
- “The politics of COVID surveillance acceptance: Civil liberties in the pandemic” — Graduate Student Workshop, Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, May 16, 2023
- “Hands on Guide to Designing, Coding, and Analyzing Survey Experiments” — Graduate Workshop, Simon Fraser University, May 12, 2023
- “Who is mass online surveillance for?” — ACRPS Winter School on Social Media, Surveillance, and Societies of Control, Doha, January 8, 2024; Simon Fraser University, April 11, 2023; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard, November 21, 2022; APSA, Free Speech, Censorship, & Self-Censorship Online panel, September 30, 2021
- “Throwing Bytes in Glass Houses: Defense and Western Fracture of Cybersecurity” — APSA, Interstate Cyber Conflict panel, September 18, 2022; and Digital Issues Discussion Group, March 23, 2022
- Participedia Roundtable on the Perils and Promises of Digital Communication — September 16, 2022
- “The Surveillance Complex: deputized law and order in advanced democracies” — Max Weber Programme, Legitimacy and Trust Challenges of Digital Governance, May 19–20, 2022
- “The politics of COVID compliance surveillance acceptance” — Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship Online Student Conference, March 18–19, 2021
- “TorrentFreak and political piracy” — Bits-bots-bytes workshop group, February 16, 2018