Dr. David Lyon gave a keynote lecture entitled, ‘Trust and Transparency: A View from Surveillance Studies’ at the Global Conference on Transparency Research at the FGV in Rio de Janeiro on June 26 2019, and another keynote on ‘Emerging Private Surveillance Companies: a Threat to Civil Society’ at the biennial conference of LAVITS (Red Latinamericana de estudios en Vigilancia, Technologia y Sociedad) in Salvador Bahia, Brazil on June 27 2019.