How much would “owning” your data actually protect your privacy?Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Ignacio Cofone, an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law & Data Governance at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. His research focuses on privacy harms and on algorithmic decision-making, with his current projects examining how to evaluate standing and compensation in privacy class actions and how to prevent algorithmic discrimination.Ignacio came on the ...
How could a personal characteristic like eye movement affect, say, whether you get a loan?Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Sandra Wachter, a professor of technology and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. She founded and leads OII’s Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates legal, ethical, and technical aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies.Sandra came on the show to talk about her paper...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Ben Green, an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a postdoctoral scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Specializing in the social and political impacts of government algorithms, with a focus on algorithmic fairness, smart cities, and the criminal justice system, Ben is also an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a fellow of the Center fo...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Daniel Susser, an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and a research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. A philosopher by training, he works at the intersection of technology, ethics, and policy, with his research currently focused on questions about privacy, online influence, and automated decision-making.Daniel came on the show to talk about his short essay “Data and the Good?” that recently ...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Salomé Viljoen, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She studies the information economy, particularly data about people and the automated systems it trains, and is interested in how information law structures inequality and how alternative legal arrangements might address that inequality.Salomé came on the show to talk about her pap...
In this second of a two-part episode, host Kirsten Martin continues her conversation with Luke Stark, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, and Jevan Hutson, an associate at Hintze Law PLLC. Luke researches the historical, social, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies, and Jevan‘s practice focuses on the intersection of privacy, security, and data ethics.They came on the show to talk...
It’s a TEC Talks first: two guests! Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Luke Stark, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, and Jevan Hutson, an associate at Hintze Law PLLC. Luke researches the historical, social, and ethical impacts of computing and artificial intelligence technologies, and Jevan‘s practice focuses on the intersection of privacy, security, and data ethics.They came on the show to talk about a paper they c...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Ari Waldman, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, where he is the director of the Center for Law, Information, and Creativity. A leading authority on law, technology, and society, he studies how law and technology affect marginalized populations, with particular focus on privacy, misinformation, and the LGBTQ community.Ari came on the show to talk about his book Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Pow...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Amandalynne Paullada, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education. Amandalynne recently earned her Ph.D. in computational linguistics from Washington, where her dissertation examined the social impact of natural language processing, or NLP, wherein computers are programmed to learn human languages.She came on the show to talk about a paper she authored in The Gradient titled “Machine Transl...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Casey Fiesler, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research currently focuses on big data research ethics, ethics education, ethical speculation in technology design, technology empowerment for marginalized communities, and broadening participation in computing, with much of this work supported by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla, and Omidyar.Case...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Laura Brandimarte, an assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. Holding a Ph.D. in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University, she specializes in privacy and behavioral economics, including the psychology of self-disclosure and the social dynamics of privacy decision-making and information-sharing.Laura came on the show to talk about a paper she coauthored with Alessandro...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Suneal Bedi, an assistant professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Suneal’s areas of expertise include intellectual property, marketing law/ethics, brand strategy, and the First Amendment. Holding a joint Ph.D. in marketing and Ph.D. in business ethics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as well as a J.D. from Harvard Law School, he employs multiple methods in his research to answer business-...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Katie Shilton, an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she leads the Ethics and Values in Design (EViD) Lab. Her research focuses on ethics and policy for the design of information technologies, systems, and collections, and she is a co-principal investigator of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics funded by the National Science Foundation.K...
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Vikram Bhargava, an assistant professor of strategic management and public policy at the George Washington University School of Business. His research focuses on technology addiction, mass social media outrage, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, the future of work, and other topics related to digital technology policy.Vik came on the show to talk about a paper he recently coauthored with Manuel Velasquez of Santa Clara University titled “Ethics of t...
This trailer episode is a brief introduction to TEC Talks, a podcast focused on the impact of technology on humanity.Here’s the transcript:Kirsten Martin 0:02Hi, I’m Kirsten Martin, director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center, better known as ND TEC, and I’m here to introduce you to TEC Talks.TEC Talks started out in 2021 as a virtual live event series. Videos of all these sessions are available at techethics.nd.edu.Now we’re trying something new: TEC Talks, the podcast.The show...