Roger von Laufenberg, is a sociologist and managing director at the Vienna Centre for Societal Security, VICESSE Research, where he works at the intersection of organisational studies, Science and Technology Studies and Surveillance Studies & Societal Security. He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, School of Management in Scotland, UK. His research focuses on the introduction and use of data-hungry technologies such as Machine Learning in (security) organisations and its potential impact on the practices within these organisations. Furthermore, he teaches on these topics at the University of Vienna in the department of Sociology and the department of Science and Technology Studies.