Privacy in the Digital Age: EU GDPR and More
On Monday October 1st, at 7 pm Global Citizen Lab will be hosting Dr. Lorrie Cranor to give a talk and lead a discussion about digital privacy and security. She will begin with the EU GDPR and move onto the broader issue of digital privacy. Dr. Cranor will come to talk about privacy laws in the US, EU and around world generally, and how privacy self-regulation and FTC enforcement works in the US. Also, she will discuss how online tracking works, iot privacy issues, social network privacy, and algorithmic transparency. Along the way, she will talk about some of the research of her lab, “Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory” is doing. There will be chance for Q&A and discussion to facilitate a critical look at how our data is used and how to protect against harmful uses of technology.
Speaker:
Dr. Lorrie Cranor Bio:
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University and is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She has served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 110 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics.