The Excellence Project “OGD” has been present at the SISCC Conference that took place in Romm on June 20th-21st 2024. Professor Fabio Quassoli has been chair at the panel “Digital social control: the challenges of democracy in the age of algorithms”. The for abstracts presented have examinated the recent examples of digital surveillance, focusing on the link between digitalization and social control. The researcher Eleonora di Molfetta has suggested a reflection on the use of digital technologies in the governance of urban security, highlighting both its potentiality as much as its criticality, Her speach was also about “Digital survelliance and big data policing” exploring some theoretical and methodological aspects.