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Civil Rights and Big Data

  • In-Person
  • ¹ú²úÊÓÆµ
    740 15th St NW #900
    Washington, D.C. 20005
  • 9AM – 10:30AM EDT

How will new, innovative technologies benefit all individuals and help alleviate social and economic inequalities? As the urge to collect and categorize vast quantities of data about our digital behavior becomes more widespread, big data presents new opportunities and profound challenges for individuals’ civil liberties and civil rights, and especially for communities of color, women, and other historically disadvantaged groups. 
 
In this panel, leading organizers and advocates discussed how fairness and justice figure into considerations of personal privacy and predictive analytics. Panelists presented a to guide legal and ethical thinking about safeguards and best practices. They discussed high-tech profiling, automated computer decision systems, digital due process, access and control over personal data, and problems of inaccurate or incomplete big data.
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Participants

Director of Policy
Open Technology Institute, ¹ú²úÊÓÆµ Foundation
 
 
Hazeen Ashby
Legislative Director for Research and Policy
National Urban League

 
 

Chris Calabrese
Legislative Director
American Civil Liberties Union

Jason T. Lagria
Senior Staff Attorney, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)

Rashad Robinson
Executive Director
ColorOfChange

 
Corrine Yu 
Managing Policy Director
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

 

Moderator:

Senior Research Fellow
Open Technology Institute, ¹ú²úÊÓÆµ Foundation

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