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SUMMARY:Brennan Center for Justice: Policing Race & Technology
DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header  \n\n\n“Please join the Brennan Center for Justice and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for a full-day symposium on December 3\, 2019\, with a keynote address by Dr. Ruha Benjamin – Associate Professor of African American Studies\, Princeton University. \nThis convening aims to center the racial justice issues raised by modern surveillance technologies such as facial recognition\, predictive policing\, and social media monitoring tools. Through panels and discussion\, this symposium will explore topics such as: \n\nThe deployment of surveillance technologies in the face of well-documented error rates when analyzing communities of color\, and the ways in which their unchecked use threatens to obscure and automate racial inequalities under the guise of unbiased computer systems;\n\n\nThe need to analyze the use of surveillance tools in the context of well-established racial biases in policing\, which has knock-on effects on the criminal justice system;\n\n\nIssues raised by using surveillance technologies in tandem\, such as their exacerbated impact on communities of color and the creation of a pervasive dragnet that is incompatible with a democratic society; and\n\n\nThe different approaches to regulation\, including outright bans (enacted for facial recognition in cities such as San Francisco and Somerville\, MA)\, efforts to pass transparency measures (enacted in cities such as Seattle and Nashville\, TN)\, and the role of inspector general audits (influential reports in Los Angeles and Chicago).”\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/brennan-center-for-justice-policing-race-technology/
LOCATION:NYU School of Law\, New York\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Misinformation Speaker Series: David Lazer
DESCRIPTION:“ABSTRACT: The Internet is increasingly the home of democracy. It is where people turn for civic information\, engage in political discourse public and private\, and turn to mobilize collectively. The virtual structures of the Internet are\, in some ways\, quite distinct from what preceded; and in other ways\, they reproduce and amplify those pre-existing patterns. The Internet can be the ultimate disseminator of misinformation; as well as the ultimate educator. People have at their fingertips more diverse sources of information than ever before; yet many of the institutions for the production of political and civic information are being eviscerated. This talk will discuss the informational and social logics of the Internet– what is our democracy\, today?– how they support and undermine democracy\, and concludes with a discussion of what structures and practices we need from the Internet to support democracy\, today. \nBIO: Northeastern University Professor David Lazer’s research focuses on the nexus of network science\, computational social science\, and collaborative intelligence. He is the founder of the citizen science website Volunteer Science. His research has been published in such journals as Science\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science\, the American Political Science Review\, and the Administrative Science Quarterly\, and has received extensive coverage in the media\, including the New York Times\, NPR\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, and CBS Evening News.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/misinformation-speaker-series-david-lazer/
LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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