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Bryce Newell

Associate Professor
Coordinator, SOJC Honors Program
Phone: 541-346-3843
Office: 330 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Surveillance; Privacy; Law, Technology, and Society; Information Behavior; Social Informatics; Information/Data Ethics; Information Politics; Cybercrime; Policing and Criminal Procedure; Immigration and Border Enforcement.

Biography

Bryce Clayton Newell (PhD, Information Science, University of Washington; JD, Law, University of California Davis) is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication. Bryce is trained as an information scientist (explaining what that means takes longer than you might expect) and academic lawyer, with a research agenda focused at the intersections of surveillance, privacy, policing, immigration, technology, information ethics and politics, and the law. Bryce has published four books (one monograph and three edited volumes), as well as more than 40 academic articles, book chapters, and published conference papers. He has also dabbled as a documentary filmmaker. Bryce is Co-Director of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) and Dialogue Editor for Surveillance & Society, the leading international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of surveillance in society. His book, "Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras" (University of California Press, 2021) is a socio-legal study of body-worn camera adoption by two police agencies in Washington State and was awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Surveillance Studies Network. Bryce has also recently edited another book on police body-worn cameras, "Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability" (Routledge, 2021).

Prior to coming to UO, Bryce was an assistant professor in the University of Kentucky's School of Information Science (and Sociology Department, by courtesy); postdoctoral researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University's Law School (in the Netherlands); and, during his PhD program, Google Policy Fellow at the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law. He was also jointly appointed as a Senior Researcher at Utrecht University School of Law from May 2022 to September 2023.

His research has examined police adoption and use of body-worn cameras, bystanders recording police officers, the public disclosure of police surveillance records, the legal regulation of police surveillance, privacy law, migrant perceptions of state surveillance along the US-Mexico border, the information practices of undocumented migrants and humanitarian migrant-aid workers, and issues in copyright law. His documentary film and video production work has been exhibited at museums in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, and has been screened at film festivals and on university campuses across the United States. He has discussed his research on NPR (All Things Considered), written about body-worn cameras for Slate, and his research has been cited in a variety of outlets, including the New York Times Magazine.

Education

Postdoc, Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University
PhD, Information Science, University of Washington
MS, Information Science, University of Washington
Graduate Certificate, Values in Society, University of Washington
JD, Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law
BS, Multimedia Communication Technology, Utah Valley State College
AAS, Multimedia Communication Technology, Utah Valley State College

Publications

Books

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras.” University of California Press (June 2021) (link).

Bryce Clayton Newell (ed.), “Police on Camera: Privacy, Surveillance, and Accountability.” Routledge (Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series) (2021) (link).

Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, and Bert-Jaap Koops (eds.), "Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space." Routledge (Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series) (2019) (link).

Tjerk Timan, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Bert-Jaap Koops (eds.), "Privacy in Public Space: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges." Edward Elgar Publishing (2017) (link).

Journal Articles

Newell, Bryce Clayton, Nadezhda Purtova, Young Eun Moon, and Hugh J. Paterson III. Forthcoming. “Regulating the US Consumer Data Market: Comparing the Material Scope of US Consumer Data Privacy Laws and the GDPR.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 45 (accepted).

Newell, Bryce Clayton. 2023. “Surveillance as Information Practice.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 74 (4): 444–460. [link]

Newell, Bryce Clayton and Marthinus C. Koen. 2023. “Painting the Narrative: Police Body-Worn Cameras, Report Writing, and the Techno-Regulation of Policework.” First Monday 28 (7). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i7.13243 [link]

Marthinus C. Koen, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Melinda R. Roberts, “The Pennybridge Pioneers: Understanding Internal Stakeholder Perceptions of Body-Worn Camera Implementation.” Journal of Crime and Justice [advance online: link]

Marthinus C. Koen, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Melinda R. Roberts, “Body-Worn Cameras: Technological Frames and Project Abandonment.” Journal of Criminal Justice 72 (1), art. 101773 (2021). [link]

Bryce Clayton Newell and Bert-Jaap Koops, “From Horseback to the Moon and Back: Comparative Limits on Police Searches of Smartphones upon Arrest.” Hastings Law Journal 72 (1): 229–290 (2020) [link, PDF]

Ivan Škorvánek, Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Andrew Roberts, “’My Computer is My Castle’: New Privacy Frameworks to Regulate Police Hacking.” BYU Law Review 2019 (4): 997–1081 (2020). [PDF]

Ricardo Gomez, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Sara Vannini, “Mind the Five Card Game: Participatory Games to Strengthen Information Practices and Privacy Protections of Migrants.” The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 4 (2): 116–122. [PDF]

Bryce Clayton Newell, Sara Vannini, and Ricardo Gomez, “The Information Practices and Politics of Migrant-Aid Work in the US-Mexico Borderlands.” The Information Society 36 (4): 199–213 (2020). (link, PDF).

Sara Vannini, Ricardo Gomez, and Bryce Clayton Newell, “’Mind the Five’: Guidelines for Data Privacy and Security in Humanitarian Work With Undocumented Migrants and Other Vulnerable Populations.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T) 71 (8): 927–938 (2020).

Ricardo Gomez, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Sara Vannini, “Empathic Humanitarianism: Understanding the Motivations Behind Humanitarian Work with Migrants at the US-Mexico Border.” Journal on Migration and Human Security 8 (1): 1–13 (2020). [link]

Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Ivan Škorvánek, “Location Tracking by Police: The Regulation of ‘Tireless and Absolute Surveillance.’” UC Irvine Law Review 9 (3): 635–698 (2019).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Context, Visibility, and Control: Police Work and the Contested Objectivity of Bystander Video.” New Media & Society 21 (1): 60–76 (2019).

Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, Andrew Roberts, Ivan Škorvánek, and Maša Galič, “The Reasonableness of Remaining Unobserved: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Surveillance and Voyeurism in Criminal Law.” Law & Social Inquiry 43 (4): 1210–1235 (2018).

Bryce Clayton Newell and Ruben Greidanus, “Officer Discretion and the Choice to Record: Officer Attitudes Towards Body-Worn Camera Activation.” North Carolina Law Review 96 (5): 1525–1578 (2018) (invited).

Bryce Clayton Newell, Ricardo Gomez, and Verónica E. Guajardo, “Sensors, Cameras, and the New ‘Normal’ in Clandestine Migration: How Undocumented Migrants Experience Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Surveillance & Society 15 (1): 21–41 (2017).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Collateral Visibility: A Socio-Legal Study of Police Body Camera Adoption, Privacy, and Public Disclosure in Washington State.” Indiana Law Journal 92 (4): 1329–1399 (2017) (research referenced in the New York Times Magazine [Oct. 18, 2016]).

Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, Ivan Škorvánek, Tomislav Chokrevski, and Maša Galič, “A Typology of Privacy.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 38 (2): 483–575 (2017).

Bryce Clayton Newell, Ricardo Gomez, and Verónica E. Guajardo, “Information Seeking, Technology Use, and Vulnerability among Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” The Information Society 32 (3): 176–191 (2016).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Technopolicing, Surveillance, and Citizen Oversight: A Neorepublican Theory of Liberty and Information Control.” Government Information Quarterly 31 (3): 421–431 (2014).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “The Massive Metadata Machine: Liberty, Power, and Secret Mass Surveillance in the U.S. and Europe.” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 10 (2): 481–522 (2014).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Local Law Enforcement Jumps on the Big Data Bandwagon: Automated License Plate Recognition Systems, Information Privacy, and Access to Government Information.” Maine Law Review 66 (2): 397–435 (2014) (invited).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Crossing Lenses: Policing’s New Visibility and the Role of ‘Smartphone Journalism’ as a Form of Freedom-Preserving Reciprocal Surveillance.” Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 2014 (1): 59–104 (2014).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Rethinking Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Online Social Networks.” Richmond Journal of Law & Technology 17 (4), art. 12: 1–62 (2011).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Freedom of Panorama: A Comparative Look at International Restrictions on Public Photography.” Creighton Law Review 44 (2): 405–428 (2011).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Discounting the Sweat of the Brow: Converging International Standards for Electronic Database Protection.” Intellectual Property Law Bulletin 15 (2): 111–122 (2011).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Independent Creation and Originality in the Age of Imitated Reality: A Comparative Analysis of Copyright and Database Protection for Digital Models of Real People.” BYU International Law & Management Review 6 (2): 93–126 (2010).

Other Contributions to Journal Articles

Batya Friedman and Bryce Clayton Newell, “Tech Policy” section of the collaborative article: “Eight Grand Challenges for Value Sensitive Design from the 2016 Lorentz Workshop.” Ethics and Information Technology 23: 5–16 (2021) [link] (credited co-author of the indicated section, which is part of a larger article)

Journal Special Issue Editorials/Forewards

Keith Spiller and Bryce Clayton Newell, eds. 2023. “Introduction: Surveillance in Conflict and Crisis.” Surveillance & Society 21 (1): 83–90 (editorial introduction to Dialogue section). [PDF]

Susan Cahill and Bryce Newell, “Surveillance Stories: Imagining Surveillance Futures.” Surveillance & Society 19 (4): 412–413 (2021) (editorial introduction to special issue) [PDF]

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Introduction: Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, and State Surveillance.” Surveillance & Society 19 (3): 338–344 (2021) (editorial introduction to Dialogue section) [PDF]

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Introduction: Surveillance as Evidence.” Surveillance & Society 18 (3): 400–402 (2020) (editorial introduction to Dialogue section). [PDF]

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Introduction: The State of Sousveillance.” Surveillance & Society 18 (2): 257–261 (2020) (editorial introduction to Dialogue section). [PDF]

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Introduction: Decolonizing Surveillance Studies.” Surveillance & Society 17 (5): 714–716 (2019) (editorial introduction to Dialogue section). [PDF]

Brayne, S., Levy, K., and Bryce Clayton Newell, “Visual Data and the Law.” Law & Social Inquiry 43 (4): 1149–1163 (2018) (editorial). [link]

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Privacy as Antipower: In Pursuit of Non-Domination.” European Data Protection Law Review 4 (1): 12–16 (2018) (invited Foreword).[link]

Randy K. Lippert and Bryce Clayton Newell, “Introduction: The Privacy and Surveillance Implications of Police Body Cameras.” Surveillance & Society 14 (1): 113–116 (2016) (editorial). [link, PDF]

Book Chapters

Newell, Bryce Clayton, and Eleni Kosta. 2024. “Apples, Oranges, and Time Machines: Regulating Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras in Europe and the United States.” In Privacy, Technology, and the Criminal Process, edited by Andrew Roberts, Joe Purshouse, and Jason Bosland, pp. 196–221. Routledge. [link to book]

Farah Azhar, Sara Vannini, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Ricardo Gomez, “Navigating Borders/Navigating Networks: Migration, Technology and Social Capital.” In Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, edited by Marie McAuliffe. Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 92–106 [link to book]

Bryce Clayton Newell, Sylvia de Conca, and Kristen Thomasen, “Surveillance and Privacy in North American Public Spaces.” In Surveillance, Privacy, and Public Space, edited by Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, and Bert-Jaap Koops. Routledge (2019).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Surveillance and Privacy in the Streets: An Introduction.” In Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space, edited by Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, and Bert-Jaap Koops. Routledge (2019) (introduction).

Tjerk Timan, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Bert-Jaap Koops, “Introduction: Conceptual Directions for Privacy in Public Space.” In Privacy in Public Space: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges, edited by Tjerk Timan, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Bert-Jaap Koops. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 1–46 (2017) (introduction).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Mass Surveillance, Privacy, and Freedom: A Case for Public Access to Information about Mass Government Surveillance Programs.” In Privacy, Security and Accountability: Ethics, Law, and Policy, edited by Adam D. Moore, 203–222. Rowman & Littlefield International (2015).

Bryce Clayton Newell, Cheryl A. Metoyer, and Adam D. Moore, “Privacy in the Family.” In Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Beate Roessler and Dorota Mokrosinska, 104–121. Cambridge University Press (2015).

Peer-Reviewed, Archival Publications in Conference Proceedings

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Interpreting Police Video: A Pilot Study.” In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)  58 (1): 499-503 (2021)

Sara Vannini, Ricardo Gomez, and Bryce Clayton Newell, “Documenting the Undocumented: Privacy and Security Guidelines for Humanitarian Work with Irregular Migrants.” In Proceedings of iConference 2019 (Information in Contemporary Society, edited by Natalie Greene Taylor, Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Michelle H. Martin, and Bonnie Nardi, 236–244 (Springer: Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (nominated for Lee Dirks Award for Best Full Research Paper; 1 of 5 finalists).

Bryce C. Newell and Ricardo Gomez, “Informal Networks, Phones and Facebook: Information Seeking and Technology Use by Undocumented Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border.” In Proceedings of iConference 2015 (2015) (nominated for Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper Award; 1 of 5 finalists).

Katya Yefimova, Moriah Neils, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Ricardo Gomez, “Fotohistorias: Participatory Photography as a Methodology to Elicit the Life Experiences of Migrants.” In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 3672–3681 (2015).

Franziska Roesner, Tamara Denning, Bryce Clayton Newell, Tadayoshi Kohno & Ryan Calo, “Augmented Reality: Hard Problems of Law and Policy.” In Proceedings (adjunct) of 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 1283–1288 (Workshop on Usable Privacy & Security for wearable and domestic ubiquitous devices (UPSIDE)) (2014).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Public Places, Private Lives: Balancing Privacy and Freedom of Expression in the United Kingdom.” In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 51(1), 1–10 (2014).

Bryce Clayton Newell and Joseph T. Tennis, “Me, My Metadata, and the NSA: Privacy and Government Metadata Surveillance Programs.” In Proceedings of iConference 2014: 345–355 (2014).

David P. Randall and Bryce Clayton Newell, “The Panoptic Librarian: The Role of Video Surveillance in the Modern Public Library.” In Proceedings of iConference 2014: 508–521 (2014).

Bryce Clayton Newell and David P. Randall, “Video Surveillance in Public Libraries: a Case of Unintended Consequences?” In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS): 1932–1941 (2013).

Refereed Conference Posters

Sara Vannini, Ricardo Gomez, and Bryce Clayton Newell, “Documenting the Undocumented: Privacy and Security Guidelines for Humanitarian Work with Irregular Migrants.” In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD X) (2019).

Bryce Clayton Newell, Sara Vannini, Ricardo Gomez, and David Nemer, “Exacerbating the Vulnerabilities of Undocumented Migrants: The Risks Involved in the Humanitarian Information Activities of Migrant-Aid Organizations.” In Proceedings of iConference 2018 (2018).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Context, Visibility, and Control: Contesting the Objectivity of Visual (Video) Records of Police-Citizen Interactions.” In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2017) 54 (1): 766–767 (2017).

Reports / White Papers

Ryan Calo, Tamara Denning, Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Lassana Magassa, Emily McReynolds, Bryce Clayton Newell, Franzi Roesner, and Jesse Woo,  “Augmented Reality: A Technology and Policy Primer” (Seattle, WA: UW Tech Policy Lab) (2015).

Encyclopedia Entries

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Katz v. United States (1967).” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, edited by Bruce A. Arrigo. SAGE (2018).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Kyllo v. United States (2001).” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, edited by Bruce A. Arrigo. SAGE (2018).

Bryce Clayton Newell, “European Convention on Human Rights.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, edited by Bruce A. Arrigo. SAGE (2018).

Dissertation

Bryce Clayton Newell, “Transparent Lives and the Surveillance State: Policing, New Visibility, and Information Policy.” Doctoral thesis. University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2015).