Center Director of SHAPE Peter Lauritsen was invited to give a presentation at the LIVSTEGN conference held November 7th-8th, 2024, at AIAS (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies).

The LIVSTEGN project focuses on how to ethically use surveillance technology to create safety and security for citizens with dementia. The conference offered many different interesting presentations and showed several angles and facets of the use of surveillance technology in dementia care.

In context of the SHAPE project ‘History of the civil registration number’, Peter Lauritsen gave a presentation focusing on the CPR register as a surveillance infrastructure. The presentation emphasized how an infrastructure like this is relational in the way it connects technology, people and places with each other.

Through a historical overview of both political and public debate leading up to the introduction of the civil registration number, it was made clear how certain values are embedded in this infrastructure, and that in the history of the civil registration number, there are some fundamental discussions about state control and care for citizens that we have pushed into the background, as we have become used to the system and do not give its use much thought.

Read more about the project ‘History of the civil registration number’ here.