Exploring the future of data, human rights, speech, and privacy
A weekly GeoTech Hour focused on the future of data as it relates to human rights, speech, and privacy.

The Future of Privacy and Breakthrough Technologies
Advances in technology, such as artificial intelligence to the human body acting as the computer interface, mean privacy will take on even greater significance. Experts highlight why our actions now will drive tomorrow’s outcomes.

Podcast: The future of privacy
Our phones, our fitbits, our social media use, our internet searches, are all providing information about us. Information that can be used by commercial companies, by political parties, by governments. In the UK, there was a recent scandal when it was discovered that a company, Cambridge Analytica, had asked people to fill out a questionnaire, and used the results to tailor political messages to millions of Facebook users. Carissa Véliz is a philosopher at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. She argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.

The Future of Global Technology, Privacy, and Regulation
Governance Studies at Brookings hosted an event to explore the future of global technology, privacy, and data protection with Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel at Microsoft, to address these and other questions.

The Future of Privacy
The Future of Privacy

ConnectSafely Live: Amelia Vance from the Future of Privacy Forum
Privacy is always an important issue but never more so than during this Covid-19 pandemic when people are being asked to consider giving up some privacy in the name of public health. Whether it’s tracing apps or decisions about who gets to go to work or school, there are plenty of privacy questions arising from our current situation.

Data Privacy Day 2020: A Vision for the Future
Join NCSA, sponsors and special guests on January 28 for Data Privacy Day 2020! Recent years have been transformational for privacy. In the wake of GDPR, governments around the country, and around the world, are enacting privacy laws and regulations. Data Privacy Day 2020 will bring together experts on U.S. and international privacy to delve deep into the global wave of regulations and what they mean for economies around the world today and into the future.

Data Privacy Trends in 2021: Compliance with New Regulations
The pandemic has changed the way the world works, shops, and interact; the consequences of this have included an increased reliance on technology for all of these activities and a corresponding increased sharing of personal information through technological mediums. Even before the pandemic, a global push was on to strengthen the protection of personal and health information and the results of these various influences has been an enhancement of privacy legislations globally. Compliance with global security laws is now also a larger concern for organizations everywhere.

Podcast: Privacy, Technology, and Foresight
Podcast: Privacy, Technology, and Foresight

MIT Future of Data, Trust, and Privacy Launch
At CSAIL, we believe that there is an opportunity to help inform global discussions on these topics in a way that is both technologically informed and policy aware. Through this initiative we aim to work with industry to develop privacy-preserving tools and research at MIT that will help shape the future of data governance.

Future of Online Privacy
In an era when proliferation of personal data is the status quo, online privacy is a concern for each and every user on the web. So to foster better privacy practices among users while advancing awareness of online surveillance technologies, we gathered a group of professionals working in digital security to share their expertise and wisdom on data protection in brief presentations followed by open, small group discussions and workshops. These experts included Alex Carroll speaking on behalf of Tech GDPR, Safa Ghnaim of Tactical Tech, and Mozilla's Dr. Alice Fleischmann and Anja Fordon, with an opening and introduction by Jolocom's Ellie Stephens.

The Future of Privacy
In this live panel we discuss importance of data privacy, the brand new findings of a global consumer state of mind report, and examples of how to gain great customer insights while also protecting people’s privacy.

The future of surveillance | Ben Garfinkel
Too much surveillance can lead to privacy violations and creeping authoritarianism, but too little can lead to catastrophe. In general, debates about surveillance involve taking a position on the tradeoff between privacy and security. But what if we could have it both ways? In this talk Ben Garfinkel explores ways we may be able to increase the benefits of surveillance in the future, without also increasing the drawbacks.

Recent years have been transformational for privacy. In the wake of GDPR, governments around the country, and around the world, are enacting privacy laws and regulations. Data Privacy Day 2020 will bring together experts on U.S. and international privacy to delve deep into the global wave of regulations and what they mean for economies around the world today and into the future.

Future of Privacy Panel - MEF at MWC19
When we share data, we get efficient services and personalised products. We also get identity theft and creepy advertising. So how can we tackle this paradox? At MWC19, MEF invited four experts to discuss.

The Dark Future of Privacy By Menny Barzilay (Ex CISO, Israeli Defense)
How do tech companies manipulate the way people think? What would a top-secret Russian agency do to affect the outcome of the US presidential elections? Can systems today analyze people’s behavior to the point where they can predict every move they’ll make?

Ian Kerr: Wearable Computing and the Future of Privacy
Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, uses his work with Steve Mann, who claims to be the world's first cyborg, as a springboard to discuss lifelogging and personal experience cataloging, and the privacy implications of the practice becoming widespread.

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